Example sentences of "[noun] to set [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 It was also the turn of Kenneth Clarke today ; the Health Secretary did n't have quite so much up his sleeve , but he did announce plans to set up a nationwide programme of health targets .
32 The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects .
33 The Malaysian government has announced plans to set up a special task force in Europe to carry out counter-propaganda work against environmentalist criticism of its logging operations in Sarawak and its treatment of the Penan people .
34 The UK government has shelved plans to set up an environmental agency because of lack of parliamentary time in the next session for the necessary legislation .
35 There are plans to set up an Eritrean Communication and Development Institute to serve as a national training and production centre .
36 There are plans to set up an Eritrean Communication and Development Institute to serve as a national training and production centre .
37 There are also plans to set up an international school for the training of museum curators attached to the Hermitage .
38 The honorary secretary of the Royal Statistical Society denies in a letter published on this page today that there are plans to set up an independent council to monitor the Government 's use of statistics , but such a development would be desirable .
39 He has also highlighted plans to set up an independent Energy Savings Trust , funded with some of the profits made by British Gas and the regional electricity companies .
40 Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO .
41 The concept of confidentiality was considered in the case of Thomas Marshall ( Exports ) Ltd. v Guinle [ 1976 ] , in which the defendant , who was the managing director of the plaintiff company , resigned half-way through his 10 year service contract to set up a rival business .
42 Runcorn 's Justin Wall had rattled the post before Phil Brown punished a debut slip by defender Andy Taylor to set up a close range opener for David Riley .
43 Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement .
44 Washington 's fear of devaluation is reflected in Johnson 's decision to set up a Special Study Group in the middle of 1965 to examine the implications of the weakness of sterling for the dollar and the Bretton Woods international monetary system .
45 As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb .
46 Does the Minister accept that when the wishes of the people of Scotland are reflected in the decision to set up a Scottish parliament , it will indeed make sense to reduce the representation of Scots in the House ?
47 For example there may be a decision to set up an expensive data-processing facility in order to cut the costs of data-processing .
48 BSB Dorland 's grip on the £28m ( Media Register ) Rover account is threatened following Rover 's decision to set up an in-house marketing consultancy .
49 In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters .
50 ‘ We were sent to a landing strip on the coast near Bardia to set up a listening post on a wavelength contained in sealed orders .
51 A protocol on banking , which asked the heads of central banks in CIS member states to set up a co-ordinating body , was reinforced by their decision to conduct a co-ordinated finance policy , reported on March 17 .
52 a grant to set up an illicit still
53 The Composers Pen instrument screen enables the user to set up the basic layout of the score .
54 On the one hand , Lord Greene MR indicated the strict limits on the powers of the courts to set aside an administrative decision where the public authority acted within its jurisdiction .
55 The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems .
56 Following discussions by a forum of some 70 senior executives from the industry , brought together by the Association , and which invited the HCIMA to set up an industry-led accreditation scheme .
57 Much more common is for the Act to set out the main framework of the legislation , dealing itself with the more important and general matters , but leaving much to be done later by others , particularly the Minister in charge of the sponsoring department .
58 The agreement yesterday by Russia and Ukraine to set up a joint parliamentary commission on how to divide the fleet is a welcome sign of flexibility .
59 ‘ We committed ourselves to the City of Edinburgh initiative asking companies to set aside a suitable proportion of the cost of any development to commission new works of art .
60 In 1976 , in response to a White Paper on devolution to Scotland and Wales , the CNAA commented that it had always been sensitive to the specific conditions and needs of Scotland , and that it might be appropriate for the CNAA to set up a Scottish Committee .
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