Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expedition from the Macintyre organisation in Milton Keynes set off this week … their challenge is our Friday Feature |
| 2 | So Ken set off this summer to walk from St. Bees Head in Cumbria and finished at Robin Hood Bay . |
| 3 | JS sets up new development company . |
| 4 | While each university plans and validates its own degree programmes in the light of a general awareness of policies , constraints and demands , the CNAA sets out general principles for first degree courses under its aegis . |
| 5 | Crosses from Sharpe set up all three goals after United were , astonishingly , three down . |
| 6 | To achieve this , Claudius set up two client kingdoms in the south-east , one with Prasutagus as King of the Iceni , and the other with Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus as King of the two tribes , the Regini and the Atrebates . |
| 7 | ‘ We threw it away , ’ said Gooch after England set only 231 for victory lost their last seven wickets for 52 runs in 11 overs at Lord 's . |
| 8 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 9 | On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book , Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village . |
| 10 | Wayne Getz and Katherine Smith of the University of California at Berkeley set up three hives with a queen fertilised by two unrelated drones — the matings produced worker bees of differing colours . |
| 11 | Viktor Ivanenko was appointed acting head of the new service , which was portrayed by commentators as a further move by Yeltsin to set up sovereign state structures for his republic [ see below for new USSR law regulating KGB ] . |
| 12 | Dot sat in her coat at the kitchen table and watched Mrs Hollidaye heaping thick slices of bread spread with yellow butter on to a plate while Loopy Lil set out pretty teacups Patterned with roses on to matching saucers . |
| 13 | About a year ago , Eltec set up 15 Service Centres for the Public , CAPs , which deal solely with repairs for anything from personal computers and mobile phones to Nintendos . |
| 14 | In ‘ Education , Employment and Recruitment ’ , Robert Moore sets out some empirical findings on how educational qualifications are used in the labour market . |
| 15 | Quinn set off fifteen minutes before me but arrived in Kensington three minutes ahead . |
| 16 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones set up one of the first and best organised of them in Newcastle Wynne-Jones 's work for the Labour Party , added to his success as a chemist , made him a clear choice as a working member of the House of Lords . |
| 17 | IBOA set out these problems , and clarification was sought from the Bank . |
| 18 | One evening , Emily set aside some time when she could be alone . |
| 19 | As part of the same appeal , Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Bishops ' Conferences of Europe call on every Catholic Church in Europe to set aside New Year 's Day as a ‘ special day of prayer for peace in Europe , and in particular in the Balkans ’ . |
| 20 | Although British Government officials are hopeful that the threat of Mr Clinton setting up substantial trade barriers is receding , there is still no progress on the GATT trade agreement that could establish a sound basis for international commerce for the remainder of the century . |
| 21 | As a result of these information needs , the TSB set up two separate but linked projects . |
| 22 | A run from right-back Paul Bennett set up another sequence of corners . |
| 23 | Vera Brittain was very much in sympathy with new feminism and together with Eva Hubback set up fee-paying baby clubs for middle class mothers during the late 1920s , because she recognised the anxieties of women struggling to follow the impossible infant-feeding and training schedules advocated by specialists . |
| 24 | A paper on ‘ The future of the country house : financial and legislative aspects of ownership ’ by Dublin solicitor Frank Carr set out some interesting facts on ownership . |
| 25 | Land set aside this year will be eligible to enter non-rotational in 1993–94 . |
| 26 | LOGICA AND FINSIEL SET UP ITALIAN JOINT VENTURE |
| 27 | To provide a national and worldwide news service , the ITA set up Independent Television News , under the companies ' joint ownership . |
| 28 | Colin Allister set up both goals , the first in 14 minutes converted by McGladdery , and the second just 30 seconds from time by schoolboy Lee Tumilty . |
| 29 | The Socialist group in the European parliament has called for the EC to set more ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 30 | Slovakia sets up environmental agency |