Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 2 | This Association has been instrumental in getting the APA to adopt guidelines on non-sexist language and practices , and to set up an office for Women 's Programmes . |
| 3 | SCOTVEC has devoted a substantial amount of time to debating how staff development might proceed and set up an ad hoc group to undertake more detailed discussions . |
| 4 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 5 | In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee . |
| 6 | Of the rebellion in Mesopotamia he wrote that it could be dealt with by raising two divisions of volunteer local troops , reducing the British administrative staff and setting up an Arab government under the indirect control of a British officer . |
| 7 | A Labour government would immediately initiate the widest possible review defence commitments world-wide and set up an arms conversion agency . |
| 8 | Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly … |
| 9 | At the height of the Anglo Irish agreement , McMurdo severed his links with the Conservative Party and set up an ill-fated Scottish Unionist Party . |
| 10 | Young adult males are driven out of this group and form separate bachelor parties that must bide their time until they can steal young females and set up an oligarchy of their own . |
| 11 | The brothers converted part of the building to make a chapel , and set up an industry in old railway huts which produced exquisite ecclesiastical embroideries , many of which can still be seen in local churches . |
| 12 | Both government and unions stepped back and set up an arbitration process to try to resolve the cleaners ' claim for a minimum monthly salary of 80,000 pesetas ( £450 ) . |
| 13 | Portugal 's transport minister Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral and health minister Arlindo Carvalho went to the scene to supervise rescue operations and set up an inquiry . |
| 14 | He bought some palladium and set up an experiment . |
| 15 | The only break in his 115-Test career came during the 1984–85 home series against England , where an unwise stroke against Pat Pocock in the second match at New Delhi triggered an Indian collapse and set up an England victory . |
| 16 | Other statutes created new offences , amended penalties , re-organized the structure of the courts , re-classified the types of offence tried in them , defined the powers of the police , and set up an independent prosecution service . |
| 17 | If Salford does decide to take the money on offer and set up an Alumni I do n't think Convocation should withdraw and sulk . |
| 18 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
| 19 | Having now accumulated a small amount of capital and a tiny corps of agents in European cities , Reuter moved to London in 1851 and set up an office in the Royal Exchange Buildings . |
| 20 | In 1821 he joined in partnership with John Beckinton of Newcastle and set up an office at 14 Salthouse Lane , next door to the Hull branch of the Bank of England . |
| 21 | Extend short term crisis support at home to East and West Lothian and set up an alarm scheme for frail elderly people in Midlothian . |
| 22 | One of their sections had gone hog barmy and set up an operation that turned into a shoot-out in a friendly country with an apparently innocent citizen getting killed . |
| 23 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 24 | But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model . |