Example sentences of "[n mass] set [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs involved are agreed at the sum of eight hundred and eighty one pounds and twenty five pence to set up the trust and an annual cost of three thousand two hundred and thirty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 2 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 3 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 4 | The supplementary budget is also said to include several billion yen to set up the network , part of the next ten-year cancer research programme to begin next year ( see Nature 361 , 672 ; 1993 ) . |
| 5 | The FRS sets out the conditions under which an undertaking that is the parent of other undertakings should prepare consolidated financial statements . |
| 6 | Straight and narrow Part one of David Stevens ' new series sets out the plans for his transformation of a long , narrow garden . |