Example sentences of "[vb mod] set [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must set up processes of measurement which give us the basis for improvement targetting and monitoring progress . |
| 2 | It reaffirmed that LEAs must set up education committees and appoint a chief education officer , but the Secretary of State need no longer be consulted about the appointment of the latter . |
| 3 | The committee 's first leaflet , We Must Win , declared : ‘ We must set out ideals and objectives in clear terms and we must so order our own mode of life and social system that men may know that we offer a happiness , freedom and prosperity which can never flourish under Hitler 's totalitarianism . |
| 4 | John Hayward had , in fact , first suggested in 1935 that they should set up house together , but Eliot chose not to do so . |
| 5 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 6 | If you were to use essential oil neat , that 's the little drops of oil , it 's too strong and it will h Well it wo n't harm you but it wo n't it might set up irritations . |
| 7 | His real fear was that the interloper might set down roots and eventually steal the bulk of his clientele . |
| 8 | Police are keeping a watch on all main roads leading to the site , they say they 'll set up roadblocks if necessary . |
| 9 | They were a kind of enabling powers — you could set up circumstances that would fit either . |
| 10 | A year later the Government through its " Training Agency " , allowed money to 30 " Urban Programme Areas ' so that they could set up Compacts . |
| 11 | Any more and I could set up shop ! ’ |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine is expected soon to release a white paper on energy policy which could set out plans for saving some of the jobs at pits BC want to close . |
| 13 | I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies . |
| 14 | We 'd set up home wherever we were . ’ |
| 15 | The first thing that he noticed was that the lights were out and that she 'd set up candles from his emergency supply in one of the kitchen cupboards . |
| 16 | American firms , for instance , may set up EC subsidiaries . |
| 17 | He said Labour would set up Skills UK , an emergency employment package to provide new jobs and training programmes for the unemployed and people returning to work . |
| 18 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 19 | Like , her politics were really cool … ’ she says , and explains how her mother would set up estate agents and expose them for discriminatory letting policies . |
| 20 | Although one of the gowns sent by Tamar was quite deep brown in colour , the other was of a pretty shade of blue , which would set off Martha 's eyes , which were the same deep blue as her father 's . |
| 21 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 22 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 23 | Patten promised last year a paper that would set out Britain 's agenda for the environment to the end of the century . |
| 24 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 25 | DSR will set up manufacturing at its facility in San Diego where it integrates AT&T 3B2s and hangs PCs off them . |
| 26 | Grouped in a holding called System-Kontakt , they will set up deals between east and west . |
| 27 | ‘ Today , ’ the colonel continued , ‘ we march towards Ypres where we will set up camp before beginning a new and I believe final assault on the German front . |
| 28 | These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them . |
| 29 | There are prototyping packages available which will set up screen layouts and bring in blocks of code for validating and presenting data . |
| 30 | While Russia is an area of interest , he does n't believe Coda will set up shop there over the next couple of years at least , until economic stability is re-established . |