Example sentences of "[verb] to set [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecom wants to set up a global framework which can offer a complete telecommunications service package to multinationals by reselling spare capacity on the international private line circuits of other US carriers . |
| 2 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 3 | It wants to set up a local-government commission to review the structure of local government across England . |
| 4 | Wickes Developments wants to set up a 31,000 square foot superstore at Lustrum Avenue , Portrack , but the council turned down the plan saying it would take trade away from the town centre , and create traffic problems . |
| 5 | The WWF and the University of Joensuu wants to set up a dozen seal reservations in the area , organising volunteers to hand-feed seals with protein-rich food to ensure that they reach breeding age . |
| 6 | Felsted 's record-breaking pair , Michael Martin ( left ) and William Cooper , whose unbroken partnership of 239 helped to set up a crushing victory over Harrow |
| 7 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 8 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 9 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 10 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 11 | If this is not provided , the user will need to set up an equivalent record . |
| 12 | Hence , it was natural to become preoccupied with climate and to try to set up a geomorphological scheme in which climate dominated erosion and erosion dominated structure and lithology , so that every climatic zone had its characteristic landforms . |
| 13 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 14 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 15 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 16 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 17 | In all the countries across Europe , the most likely individuals handling Virgin material for the licensee in that country were approached to set up the new local Virgin office . |
| 18 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 19 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) on March 18 obtained a local ceasefire in order to send a mission to Stepanakert , where it planned to set up an operational base . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 21 | The Democratic Platform at a conference on March 18-19 had begun discussing whether it should prepare to set up a new political party immediately after the July congress , if its policies were not adopted . |
| 22 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 23 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |
| 24 | The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters . |
| 25 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 26 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 27 | They agreed to set up a Supreme Council of British Mosques to consider how British Muslims should respond to Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war . |
| 28 | The 13-nation Independent European Programme Group ( IEPG , involving all the European members of NATO except Ireland ) meeting on June 28 , 1989 , in Estoril , Portugal , agreed to set up a joint programme known as Euclid to promote research and development among European defence contractors . |
| 29 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |
| 30 | Defence and foreign ministers of the nine member countries of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , meeting in Bonn , Germany , on June 19 , agreed to set up a joint military force which could be deployed for peacekeeping , humanitarian and other missions , including the deployment of " combat forces in crisis management " , in Europe and elsewhere . |