Example sentences of "[noun] by setting [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 2 | The government responded to the unacceptable strength of the mass picket by setting up a Court of Enquiry ( under Lord Justice Scarman ) while at the same time condemning the ‘ violence ’ of the pickets . |
| 3 | Security will be tight : Peru 's Maoist guerrillas , Sendero Luminoso , expressed their disapproval of the whole business by setting off a number of bombs in Ica last week and murdering the wife of the rector of the local university . |
| 4 | Some legislative attempts have been made to structure the exercise of sentencing discretion by setting out the criteria which courts should apply when deciding on a sentence , but these , too , are limited in scope . |
| 5 | On 11 July Sir Frederick Holliday resigned as chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee after accusing the Scottish Office of undermining the committee 's powers by setting up a review body to deal with Sites of Special Scientific Interests ( SSSIs ) . |
| 6 | The process was assisted in the North by the self-exclusion of Britain from internal Ulster affairs by setting up the Stormont parliament which survived from 1922 to 1972 . |
| 7 | The bill would give the service a ‘ new lease of life ’ and put it in good shape to provide an even better service by setting up a new system of financial management and creating new incentives to efficiency . |
| 8 | His somewhat thankless task was to attempt to introduce private-sector techniques into the Civil Service by setting up the Property Services Agency . |
| 9 | If they still wanted to expand their original business there are other ways of doing so : there might be scope for a small hotel at L'Auberge , for instance , or for outside catering around Chelmslow , or they might even capitalize on George 's knowledge of French wines by setting up an off-licence and specialist wine importation business . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you certainly nailed your colours to the mast by setting up the post-mortem . ’ |
| 11 | It took a Labour Government less inhibited than the Tories with their informal links to the amateur élite to bring sport within the ambit of the welfare state by setting up the Sports Council . |
| 12 | As well as increasing the maximum number of users per server to 500 from 300 , the new version enables them to bridge to OS/2 , High Performance File System , write-once optical disks and other devices by setting up the connection as a LANtastic shared resource . |
| 13 | The resultant delay created a political situation which was dealt with in traditional style by setting up an inquiry : this produced the three Dobry Reports . |
| 14 | Treaty by setting up a company within the meaning of article 58 , whereas in this case the very right of nationals of other member states to take part in the setting up a company in the United Kingdom is restricted by the residence requirement . |
| 15 | And the very day we were with her she opened a new Citizens ' Advice Bureau in Beccles with considerable aplomb — no easy task after SHE fashion team had stunned the locals by setting up an ironing board in the middle of the town car park and giving Christine 's purple suit a quick press on the spot . |
| 16 | After building the 2-bit latch , connect the battery and check operation by setting up a binary number such as 10 . |
| 17 | Maxus has held talks with a Waorani organization , and has pledged to prevent colonizers coming up the road by setting up a checkpoint system . |
| 18 | Fortunately , assuming that your model is a collective pitch type , it is possible to reduce the chances of this happening in the early stages by setting up the model in a suitable manner . |
| 19 | These pages can be shown not only in the school library but also in the staffroom by setting up a microcomputer system in the staffroom and allowing staff to use either the interactive COMMUNITEL pages or by using new software packages . |
| 20 | On May 8 the government announced that prior to the " joint peace forum " to be held in London , the Ethiopian government would implement the Shengo ( parliament ) resolution by setting up a peace commission to negotiate with " all opposition and pro-unity forces " . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Housing and Local Government responded to architectural pressure by setting up an Urban Planning Group within the Ministry , which proceeded to produce a series of planning bulletins in the early 1960s to update advice on town-centre redevelopment . |
| 22 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 23 | The ESRC Data Archive has recognised the special needs of historians by setting up a unit to encourage the deposit of machine-readable data compiled from historical sources and to service the particular data needs of historians . |
| 24 | However , he urged the Government to consider taking the ambulance staff 's pay permanently outside the political arena by setting up a pay review body for ambulance staff Mr Clarke replied the NHS could not end up in a situation whereby group after group took industrial action and were rewarded by arbitration bodies . |
| 25 | The Commission have issued a plan to define a role for the EC by setting up a coordinated Industrial Policy ( Commission , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | One Yukpa village has responded to repeated harassment by setting up a barricade to stop the company setting up mining equipment on their land . |
| 27 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
| 28 | You can also make complex queries by setting up a set of conditions . |
| 29 | You can also make complex queries by setting up a set of conditions . |
| 30 | We can better understand this speech by setting out the levels of deception in parentheses : ( I think [ you think ] { I love you } ) . |