Example sentences of "[Wh pn] set [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
| 2 | Reveals an insider : ‘ The series is based around a failed football star who sets up a celebrity limo service . |
| 3 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 4 | A SNAKE handler who set up a group to dispel people 's fear of the reptiles was killed by a bite from his Egyptian cobra . |
| 5 | The restoration has been further financed by a subsidy of DFl.130,000 ( £40,625 ; $70,684 ) from the Ministry of Culture as well as by contributions from the owners of the villas who set up a foundation specifically for the purpose . |
| 6 | Among them was an American , John Longyear , who set up a mining operation on the shores of Isfjorden . |
| 7 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 8 | When that right was withdrawn by Cromwell , who set up a licensing system for books and newspapers , the poet Milton uttered his immortal cry for press freedom , the " Areopagitica " : " Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature . |
| 9 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 10 | Anarchy on a smaller scale is provided by photographer Kurt Buchwald who set up a ‘ Photography Forbidden ’ sign in front of innocuous subjects and then took photographs to see what happened . |
| 11 | That could well be the motto of Miss Pam Bosworth , who set up a hat hire business because her friends kept borrowing from her wardrobe . |
| 12 | Security forces in Northern Ireland are hunting a woman in black who set up a U D R soldier for murder at the garage where he worked . |
| 13 | Cheshire Fire Brigade who set up an emergency operation centre on site said the cloud had been taken by the prevailing wind east of Northwich . |
| 14 | So too was Oscar Deutsch who set up the Odeon Cinema chain from Colmore Row in the 20 's and 30's . |
| 15 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 16 | Nkumbula 's lack of vigour in attacking the Federation , once established , and in supporting participation in the elections for the Legislative Council in 1958 led to the breakaway from the ANC of Kaunda , Simon Kapwepwe and others who set up the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) in 1959 . |
| 17 | The stooge who set up the question was a local Free Presbyterian elder ! |
| 18 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 19 | Lord Cheshire : July 31 , aged 74 : Second World War flying ace , awarded the VC , who set up the Cheshire Foundation Home . |
| 20 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 21 | The Arabs from Spidex , who set up the deal , have vanished with the Iranians ' money and , they suspect , their arms shipment . |
| 22 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |
| 23 | ( David Evans , who set up the Centre back in 1989 ) . |
| 24 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 25 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 26 | , the former NIH official who set up the $ 70 million Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland specifically to pursue the project , told a Nature Genetics conference in Washington last week that he hopes to have ‘ a nearly complete description of the human genome , in the freezer and on computer , within twelve to eighteen months ’ . |
| 27 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
| 28 | At the time of the James Committee 's deliberations two research programmes were gaining educators ' attention which confirmed the anxieties of those who set up the Committee . |
| 29 | Lecturer Keith Birch , who set up the project , said : ‘ Not even one episode was completed . ’ |
| 30 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |