Example sentences of "[noun] setting [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other key measures in the Queen 's Speech will be Bills setting up a national lottery ; ratification of the Maastricht treaty on European economic and political union ; and legislation paving the way for the privatisation of British Rail and the coal industry . |
| 2 | In the fifty first minute , a delightful move with Magilton setting up a great chance for Paul Simpson , but Stowell blocked his effort . |
| 3 | Wherever Jews were to be found — whether in the Holy Land or in the far-flung Diaspora — his name had become a household word as one of the select band of zealots whose spirit had never relinquished the hope of one day setting up a Jewish state in Palestine . |
| 4 | The Labour Party promptly changed its position and in October 1974 ( when the SNP won eleven seats with 30 per cent of the Scottish vote ) promised to bring in legislative devolution setting up a Scottish Assembly with most of the functions of the secretary of state in the hands of a separate Scottish executive responsible to that Assembly . |
| 5 | The agreement included a clause setting up a joint committee to oversee air quality . |
| 6 | Not a full-time neglect , but one which sets her as a decoration on the perimeter of his life as a busy executive setting up a new venture . |
| 7 | The challenge of the emerging technologies and new media has also led to publishers in Germany setting up a new working group on electronic publishing , the Verleger-Arbeitskreis Elektronisches Publizieren . |
| 8 | During a 24-hour visit to Argentina on March 2-3 , 1990 , President Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Menem signed a joint declaration setting up a ministerial commission for political co-ordination and integration . |
| 9 | French Prime Minister Michel Rocard signed in Wellington on April 29 an agreement setting up a bilateral " friendship fund " ; accepting blame , he said that France had recognized its past wrongdoing in the Rainbow Warrior affair . |