Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 2 | policy and assessment branches set up within HSE to co–ordinate and stimulate effort on major hazards |
| 3 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 4 | But this ignores the effect of new accounting rules set out in SSAP 24 , which require companies to spread a surplus over a number of years . |
| 5 | The carriage returns set up by this method are termed ‘ soft ’ , as against ‘ hard ’ carriage returns resulting from the return key being pressed . |
| 6 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 7 | In August 1990 opposition parties set up a Democratic Antitotalitarian Forum , in February 1991 a National Convention of the Extra Parliamentary Opposition was set up , and in May 1991 a National Convention for the Establishment of Democracy was created . |
| 8 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 9 | Car companies set up environmental group |
| 10 | Registered postgraduate students may be required to provide a contribution to fieldwork costs , in addition to the fees and research costs set out above . |
| 11 | Last year the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and the Association of Social Research Organisations set up the Social Science Forum ( SSF ) to campaign on issues that were affecting social scientists . |
| 12 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 13 | MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face . |
| 14 | Ice will use clips from '70s blaxploitation movies to set up talking points for his guests . |
| 15 | On the heavy oak table beside him there were good silver goblets set out , and a flagon of wine . |
| 16 | The size and character of the domestic market and the types of foreign companies that investment agencies set out to attract , bear heavily on the nature and effects of economic TNPs . |
| 17 | Windfarms are groups of 100ft high wind turbines set up in exposed areas to create electric power . |
| 18 | Forward control and LWB rear have spring pads set further apart than SWB . |
| 19 | ‘ When college students set about doing business , they can do little to help provide raw materials and consumer goods at fair prices for thousands of people ’ . |
| 20 | DOCTORS are hoping to persuade North-East sportsmen to set aside the magic sponge for more sophisticated medical techniques . |
| 21 | TEACHERS ' UNIONS are advising their members to boycott appraisal schemes set up by schools and local authorities . |
| 22 | The various techniques described and proforma letters set out in section 11 are intended to provide a helpful aid to the smooth running of the sale rather than to prescribe standard procedures and formats . |
| 23 | Bans had to be imposed on mackerel and herring fishing to allow stocks to recover , and quota systems set up to prevent serious depletion of other fish . |
| 24 | The accounting practices set out in the [ draft ] FRS should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after [ date to be inserted after exposure . ] |
| 25 | The accounting practices set out in the standard should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |
| 26 | Finally , the accounting practices set out in FRS 3 should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |
| 27 | When the Conservative government came to abandon the tax after Thatcher 's downfall , however , many of the Conservative Party insisted on keeping some element of the poll tax for the accountability reasons set out above . |
| 28 | The Spaniards and the Italians need only home wins to set up an intriguing revenge match between two talented Latin sides who met in the Cup-Winners ' Cup final in Berne three years ago . |
| 29 | In England , the guidelines issued by the Lord Chief Justice for sentencing in rape cases set out a starting point of eight years ’ imprisonment for two or more rapists acting together , for men who rape victims in the victim 's own home , for those who abuse positions of responsibility over their victims and for rape involving abduction . |
| 30 | It is said that this was one principal factor behind the setting up of a number of Court of Session rules setting out expedited procedures back in 1988 . |