Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | There were clear political reasons for setting up the LDDC and other Urban Development Corporations , and for deciding the way in which they conduct their affairs . |
2 | WHAT are the reasons for setting up a national lottery in favour of the arts ? |
3 | Substantial reasons for setting up this service are absent from the Department of Health 's letter announcing it , which refers to ‘ anecdotal evidence ’ and says that ‘ experience suggests that many people would prefer to attend a clinic separate from other services . ’ |
4 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
5 | It also has substantial material advantages — the ability to raise loans is greater , the opportunity for setting off and writing off business expenses are more generous and , because tax to be paid at the end of any one financial year is assessed in relation to the previous year 's results , organisations with a growing turnover have a lower effective tax rate than they would if tax were assessed on current activities . |
6 | The case for setting out financial implications is obvious in a situation in which the school budget is controlled by the governors . |
7 | There is a clear case for setting out in legislation other circumstances in which consent may be regarded as vitiated so that police officers may be encouraged towards a broader interpretation of the meaning of rape . |
8 | Plans for setting up the Newbolt Committee were initiated in the course of an unprecedented mobilization of the whole population to sustain what has been described as the first " total " war effort . |
9 | Checklist for setting up the picture |
10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what meetings he has had with hon. Members on each of the proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
11 | There have been no formal meetings with hon. Members on proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
12 | And it says The Tory government which must which must take responsibility for setting up a rapacious duopoly of generating companies . |
13 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
14 | Two and a quarter hours after setting out . |
15 | Five hours after setting off , they knew their bid was futile . |
16 | Dutta , 28 , told the jury he received £20,000 for setting up the front company of Rasiklal & Sons and providing letterheads and invoices . |
17 | The gift presented should be one of value and usefulness for setting up home ( so that she is not disappointed ) , perhaps with a memento of her bachelor days , such as a cassette by her favourite pop singers , but inside a container gift which is a joke , e.g. a silver cake slice , or selection of kitchen implements , or telephone address book , plus cassettes in the bottom of a pair of large man 's football socks ( the correct size to fit her husband to be ) , or a pair of pillowcases embroidered ‘ his ’ and ‘ hers ’ . |
18 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
19 | A DDL for setting up the user views or external schemas and a DML for the processing of hierarchies ( applications using the data ) is described in Section 7.2 , in the context of IMS . |
20 | The Lithuanian government has already leased one 10-year-old Boeing 737 from GPA , and many western airlines are exploring the opportunities for setting up joint ventures using Western aircraft . |
21 | A yachtsman has been reunited with his wife — five months after setting off on a voyage which should have lasted just four weeks . |
22 | As a result the IMS was asked to carry out an initial study and advise on the feasibility of setting up a suitable PMIS for the BAA . |
23 | The main aim isto explore the feasibility of setting up an integrated physical and community infrastructure data base . |
24 | ‘ Our directive is to support multinational companies moving into Eastern Europe , ’ says Andrew Gibson , BT 's director for Eastern Europe , whose group welcomes enquiries from accountancy firms thinking of setting up there , or whose clients intend to do so . |
25 | It has also now taken the first steps towards setting up a country-wide party . |
26 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
27 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |
28 | This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform . |
29 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
30 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |