Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , prior to accessing the relational database you must set your DEC Rdb/VMS or ORACLE default database , as appropriate , to whichever database your LIFESPAN Manager has set up to retain the transferred LIFESPAN information . |
| 2 | is also going to help me in an approach to Michael Shea , former Palace press officer and diplomat ( see Who 's Who ) — I met Shea last night at one of the three seminars and receptions which has set up to mark the summit . |
| 3 | Examples of community projects that NERC has set up include the Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research ( Tiger ) , which includes carbon cycling and trace greenhouse gases , as well as water and ecosystems ; the Biomolecules Special Topic , which covers fossil biomolecules ; and a Pollutant Pathways project run jointly with the Agricultural and Food Research Council , which is studying leakage from agricultural systems into aquifers and groundwater . |
| 4 | Assuming that schools-industry liaison is a good thing and that schools should do more of it , the project team has set out to support the development of ‘ local solutions to local problems ’ , rather than prescribe a particular kind of development . |
| 5 | Robert Weiss , who has conducted a number of intensive studies of adult relationships , has set out to identify the provisions of different kinds of social ties . |
| 6 | It has set about systemising the information which is available about social work elsewhere . |
| 7 | They might have set out to reform the planning system , giving greater independence to public enterprises , establishing more effective accounting and regulation of economic performance , and also enlarging the share of medium- and small-scale private enterprise in production , trade and services ; in short , to move gradually towards a system of market socialism or to a mixed economy in which public ownership and planning would still have a substantial place . |
| 8 | While Robyn had been preoccupied with the issues of contemporary literary theory and its repercussions on the Cambridge English Faculty , the Conservative Government of Mrs Thatcher , elected in 1979 with a mandate to cut public spending , had set about decimating the national system of higher education . |
| 9 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 10 | According to some commentators the Myanman military had set out to capture the Karens ' last two bases on the Thai border ( Manerplaw and Kawmoora ) by March 27 , the country 's Armed Forces Day . |
| 11 | Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it . |
| 12 | From all this sprang the paradox that orders like the Cistercian — which had set out to revive the old tradition that many monasteries should be away from the world , set apart , oases in the desert — encouraged journeying and laid on their leaders the obligation to travel often and far . |
| 13 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 14 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 15 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 16 | In the space of a generation , we have set about wiping the blackboard clean . |
| 17 | The organizations which have set out to improve the pay and conditions of farm workers are the agricultural trade unions . |