Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 2 | In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee . |
| 3 | Of the rebellion in Mesopotamia he wrote that it could be dealt with by raising two divisions of volunteer local troops , reducing the British administrative staff and setting up an Arab government under the indirect control of a British officer . |
| 4 | Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly … |
| 5 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 6 | Other statutes created new offences , amended penalties , re-organized the structure of the courts , re-classified the types of offence tried in them , defined the powers of the police , and set up an independent prosecution service . |