Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 2 | The carriage returns set up by this method are termed ‘ soft ’ , as against ‘ hard ’ carriage returns resulting from the return key being pressed . |
| 3 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 4 | Many of those who fled across the Danube became graničari ( frontiersmen ) in the military frontier zone set up by the Habsburgs ; others manned fortresses in Dalmatia , combining defence against the Turks in the interior with piracy in the Adriatic . |
| 5 | Vets and police refer grieving owners to the voluntary bereavement group set up by Yvette Price-Mear , of Mansfield Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire . |
| 6 | The group will concentrate on developing the technology , rather than producing systems it will work closely with the University Research Group set up by ICL a year ago . |
| 7 | The cast of this production would play a major role in the MainMan organization set up by Tony DeFries to handle David 's career : Cherry Vanilla would become Press Agent , Jamie Andrews an Administrator , Tony Zanetta David 's Personal Assistant and Leee Black Childers the MainMan Staff Photographer . |
| 8 | TEACHERS ' UNIONS are advising their members to boycott appraisal schemes set up by schools and local authorities . |
| 9 | Systematic excavation was begun on 30 July by a team of underwater divers from Stas ( the underwater archaeology team set up by the Italian government in 1986 ) headed by Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano and Roberto Petriaggi , together with the underwater unit of the Naples Carabinieri . |
| 10 | In the months that preceded the general election to the short-lived Northern Ireland Assembly set up by Whitelaw , a number of explosions occurred in church and other emotive buildings in quiet parts of the country with no terrorist problem . |
| 11 | On Feb. 13 , 1989 , President dos Santos dismissed Industry Minister Henrique de Carvalho dos Santos " Onambwe " , responsibility for Industry passing to Domingo das Chagas Simoes Rangel , who had been appointed to the Internal Trade portfolio on Jan. 13 [ see p. 36481 ] , as well as heading a new industrial management commission set up by the President . |
| 12 | The dismissal arrangements set up by the governing body have to provide for the CEO , or representatives , and the headteacher , unless she or he is the person concerned , to be present at all stages when a dismissal is being considered . |
| 13 | My favourite story involved the joint telecommunications company set up by GEC and Plessey in France and called GPT . |
| 14 | Recoup , a pilot recycling company set up by the plastics industry , was paying local authorities £50–100 a tonne for plastic bottles and was trying to build a market for them . |
| 15 | Waste management companies which collect used packaging are threatening to stop work unless they are paid the DM200 million they say they are owed by Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the recycling company set up by German industry to manage its responsibilities under the 1991 recycling law . |
| 16 | The Financial Management Unit set up by the Treasury and MPO in order to disseminate useful lessons and good practice , and to bring common problems to the attention of the central departments . |
| 17 | The reserve was the flagship of Project Tiger , the recovery programme set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1972 . |
| 18 | Several temporary sorting offices set up by Canada Post were reportedly attacked and some burnt down . |
| 19 | His Pacelli grandfather had served Pius IX in the administration of the papal states : his father Filippo was a lawyer practising in the papal courts — he became an adviser to the commission for the codification of canon law set up by Pius X in 1904 . |
| 20 | Those from the Kindertransporte with homes to go to — belonging to relatives , friends or sponsors — or to hostels , did not pause at Dovercourt but went straight to London , to a central distribution point set up by the RCM to the rear of the station concourse . |
| 21 | The Storage Directories map onto the Charge Codes set up by the LIFESPAN Manager ( see Section 2.7 ) — this is where your configurable items are actually stored . |
| 22 | Any approval by Cork County Council will be appealed to the new Appeals Authority set up by the Minister for Local Government ; |
| 23 | Will we have regular reports of what the diversification unit set up by Scottish Enterprise is doing , its remit and the kind of results it is recommending ? |
| 24 | The Hong Kong contract is a boost for Transpotech , the marketing company set up by Britain 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory . |
| 25 | At The Moot , Downton , a remarkable garden has been rescued by a preservation trust set up by local people . |
| 26 | The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB . |
| 27 | Mrs Mitterrand said the hospital was on Iraqi soil , in an area controlled by the rebel Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan ( PDKI ) and inside the air exclusion zone set up by Western allies to protect Iraqi Kurds . |
| 28 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |
| 29 | They were huge baroque establishments set up by J. Lyons and Co. , as a sort of poor-man 's Cafe Royal — several different kinds of restaurants and cafeterias under one roof . |
| 30 | This was a newly independent state formed by the Allies around the nucleus of the Polish puppet state set up by the Germans in 1916 . |