Example sentences of "[verb] by set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government had responded by setting up an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of Lord Justice James to review the distribution of criminal business between the Crown Court and the Magistrates ' courts . |
| 2 | The Confederation of British Industry responded by setting up its own task force , made up of leading industrialists . |
| 3 | Henry Skelton 's college responded by setting up a drugs working party involving students . |
| 4 | One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours . |
| 5 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |
| 6 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 7 | Under the new act these problems were to be addressed by setting up coordinating budget committees in the House and the Senate , drawing up a realistic timetable for dealing with the budget and establishing a Congressional Budget Office that would provide the staff and expertise necessary for dealing with the budget responsibly . |
| 8 | Some positively conflict by setting off a train of thought which is quite at variance with the message the audio track carries . |
| 9 | In news programmes , quality and range were sought by setting up a distinct company , ITN , which was jointly owned by the other companies and supplied news for the whole channel , and later for Channel 4 . |
| 10 | Without such a measure , professionals in education and health can ignore government plans by setting up in private practice wherever they choose , with the active support of other sections of society . |
| 11 | Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy . |
| 12 | If you are asked to discuss , say , Nordenfelt 's case , begin by setting out the facts and decision — do not start in the Middle Ages . |
| 13 | On receiving a referral a social worker can usefully begin by setting out answers to these questions : |
| 14 | On our descent we began by setting up our own abseils but quickly accepted an offer from the Germans to share abseils , taking turns at setting up the anchor points . |
| 15 | Coastguards have slammed youths who sparked a rescue alert by setting off a red flare yesterday between Cullercoats and Tynemouth . |
| 16 | The Elton Committee felt that teachers ' authority in this country would be better protected by setting out the fundamental principles governing that authority in statute . |
| 17 | Since the question turns on the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , the problem is therefore one of statutory interpretation and it will be helpful to start by setting out the immediately relevant provisions of the Act : |
| 18 | Some are now attempting to combat the isolation they feel by setting up a national body to represent their interests . |
| 19 | This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level , Lagan College , in 1981 . |
| 20 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 21 | With it I wooed the children to learn by setting out to entertain them . |
| 22 | Baltic nationalism , which had been the least of the Tsar 's political worries and barely existed in 1917 , was nurtured by setting up independent little states as part of the quarantine belt against the Bolshevist infection . |
| 23 | The United States responded by setting out in another letter its obligations to the parties . |
| 24 | In the United States , he had begun by setting up a small press which published German writers in translation , books which kept the Germany he knew alive . |
| 25 | In part this is achieved by setting up ‘ behavioural experiments ’ to test out the silent assumptions and in part by ‘ Socratic dialogue ’ with the client as to the validity , consistency and utility of these assumptions . |
| 26 | The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee . |
| 27 | The system of adjudication was to be improved by setting out clearly the roles of presenting officer and tribunal clerk . |
| 28 | The article begins by setting out Swann 's terms of reference and contrasts its liberal optimism with the Macdonald Inquiry 's condemnation of antiracist policies at Burnage High School . |