Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] set [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 This had led to the widespread belief that DIY CPE involves setting up expensive in-house training facilities with dedicated staff .
2 nCube Corp has set up a distribution subsidiary — SSI-nCube Proprietary Ltd , Milton , Queensland — to service the Australian , New Zealand and South Pacific markets .
3 Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in .
4 Yesterday 's report was welcomed by both sides of the House and , hopefully , will prove the last case of its kind now that the savings indus try has set up its own investor com pensation scheme .
5 Kirin Brewery Co has set up the 25,000 square metre Hokuriku beer park which is open to the public and can brew up to 1m hectolitres of beer per year .
6 Parliament has set up a statutory framework and delegated the task of balancing the interests of the community against those of individuals and of holding the scales between individuals , to the local planning authority .
7 Over the last 25 years , Bradford University has set out to serve society through excellence in teaching and research , by advancing learning and by applying knowledge for the benefit of all .
8 The only trouble there though , she realised , as despondency tried to set in again , was that , apart from actually being in the delightful spa town of Mariánské Láznë , and actually being here in Czechoslovakia , a country she had wanted to visit , there was no other bright side .
9 Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe .
10 The Delicatessen & Fine Food Association has set up this telephone service to help you track down your nearest supplier of almost any specialist ingredient .
11 LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence .
12 Nebiolo has set up a commission to look into the thorny question of World Championship prize money .
13 I understand that the Scottish Home and Health Department has set up a working party to consider this issue , but as yet no recommendations have been made .
14 Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent .
15 The actual economic situation in Europe in 1918–20 clearly shows that this period of collapse has set in and that the old system of relations of production shows no signs of revival .
16 In Britain , the electronics industry has set up a working party to look at the options .
17 In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January .
18 In many countries , the industry has set up and funded organisations which work on these issues full-time .
19 Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by …
20 The family of a three year old girl who 's suffering from a rare heart condition has set up a support group to help other sufferers .
21 These aims have gained a high symbolic place in the public imagination and the institution has set out to prevent and detect acts which are usually subsumed under a generic ( but simplistic ) classification of ‘ crime ’ .
22 Aran has set up an ICL division to accommodate the new business , which will be run by ex-Transaction Point employees .
23 My brother-in-law began setting up our platform , and I made the mistake of telling him to get a move on .
24 But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race .
25 Further to the agreement on a temporary joint currency [ see p. 39152 ] , each side decided to set up its own central bank .
26 It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) .
27 Accordingly , this chapter aims to set out the requirements for a fully configured GIS interface , and profiles the development of a new GIS user interface system called UGIX .
28 The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning .
29 This chapter seeks to set up a scheme for language teacher education , a pragmatics of pedagogy , which incorporates these conditions for establishing relevance and provides for the furtherance of proper and profitable relations between theory and practice .
30 If there are procedures that need improvement , one reaction of the committee to a JMU report may be to ask the practice to undertake to set up or to maintain certain procedures or to change other specific arrangements .
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