Example sentences of "[vb pp] set [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 New software modules include VXVMI , a virtual memory tool , which is designed to set up virtual memory capabilities on target systems for run-time and debugging purposes .
2 On Nov. 18 , the Croatian population of the republic had voted to set up two Croatian communities [ for establishment of Serbian Autonomous Regions see p. 38513 ] .
3 J M W Turner , one of England 's most distinguished landscape painters , had always intended to set up such a society in his own lifetime , but it was never to materialise .
4 ‘ In particular , ’ the FT wrote , ‘ Smith 's management was said to be uncommunicative regarding the DIY business , although an analysts ’ visit next week is intended to set out future strategy . ’
5 Hence Dahl argues against Walker that ‘ he insists upon interpreting as if they were normative or deontological certain writings that were mainly if not wholly intended to set out descriptive empirical theories ’ .
6 Attempts are also being made to set up community-run Body Shops in inner urban areas , such as Brixton .
7 Having realised that conservation is always likely to fall victim to local poverty , great efforts are being made to set up small-scale sustainable industries which depend on the long-term well-being of the rainforest and other natural ecosystems .
8 About ten months later , in a report to an International Congress at Paris it was stated that the Spanish Medical Aid Committee had helped to set up nineteen hospitals throughout Republican Spain , some front-line hospitals and seventy-two ambulances .
9 Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control .
10 I do n't know if accounts 'll be ready because they 've got to set up new bank accounts in Norway and Denmark and accounts with the credit card companies in both of the countries separately .
11 In 1825 he induced the then foreign minister , the comte de Damas , to experiment with an essay competition as a means of choosing the most able young attachés for promotion to secretary of embassy or legation ; and in 1830 the Prince de Polignac , who had succeeded Damas , was persuaded to set up another training course .
12 The remainder is used to set up new bureaux or develop existing ones , with grant tapering down by year 3 or 4 .
13 The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) .
14 The up-front payment mentioned in Clause 1 of this Schedule will be used to set off this advance payment until such time as it is used up .
15 It raises funds for conservation and its concerns are with earth-bound pandas ( it has helped set up ten panda reserves in China ) rather than ocean-going whales .
16 b ) They have also wanted to set up good case management arrangements , not just macro level working , not just providing the context within the health authority but also to provide the right case management at the micro practice level .
17 Consequently , when these innovative ideas were taken up nationally and the Residential Precinct Regulation was adopted in the traffic legislation of the Netherlands in September 1976 , great care was taken to set down minimum design requirements and special rules for conduct within a Woonerf .
18 In addition to their government work , they would be allowed to set up commercial supply links .
19 How publicly should emissaries from the national body be encouraged to set up local associations ?
20 Irish beef processors are being encouraged to set up finishing plants in Britain and on the Continent .
21 When CNP started trading in 1981 , it was initially planned to set up 12 downstream units using CNP 's cracked products , but in the event only one , EPSI , was created .
22 Some donors have chosen to set up parallel offices to run their own projects , as they regard MOH departments as weak and inefficient .
23 Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels .
24 For all that , De Niro has managed to set up some favourable financial and distribution arrangements with Tri-Star , Columbia and Miramax films .
25 Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’
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