Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 2 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 3 | ‘ Firstly I set up a still-life — say a bottle , vase and fruit — classic objects . |
| 4 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 5 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 6 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 7 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 8 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 9 | I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option . |
| 10 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 11 | I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht . |
| 12 | I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet . |
| 13 | Briefed comprehensively by my fastidious fiancee on ironing strategy — ‘ Never start from the front/make sure you give the cuffs a decent jet of steam … not like that , you chump ! ’ — I set about a pile of shirts , mainly cotton but one silk , and a range of trousers . |
| 14 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 15 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 16 | Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech . |
| 17 | The Chamber of Shipping , which set up a task force to review routing procedures , examined 15 coastal areas where existing routing agreements did not provide specific advice for tankers . |
| 18 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 19 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 21 | The better-known Worsted Acts of 1777 ( 17 George III c. 11 and c. 56 ) , which set up an inspectorate to work with a prosecuting committee of employers , were described by the Hammonds as a piece of " class legislation " because they allowed conviction on the oath of the employer who owned the yarn in question and because they empowered extensive searching of weavers ' homes . |
| 22 | Scale 1/MPG appointees were recruited to a fairly open brief , which set out a number of options for negotiation between appointee and head : taking a class , releasing a teaching head , releasing other staff , working alongside colleagues in a ‘ support ’ role , facilitating and/or organizing school visits , covering for colleagues , and so on . |
| 23 | Ministers from 15 member countries attending the third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) conference in Seoul on Nov. 12-14 issued a declaration at the close of the talks which set out the direction and role for APEC as " an exemplary model of open regional co-operation " , and agreed to co-operate to reduce trade barriers both within the region and worldwide , and to identify and promote the region 's interests . |
| 24 | The Accounting Standards Board ( ASB ) has published for comment an exposure draft of the Foreword to UITF Abstracts explaining the authority , scope and application of the Urgent Issues Task Force ( UITF ) abstracts issued by the ASB which set out the consensus reached by the UITF on particular issues . |
| 25 | Mr. Clements , a partner in Crossman Block , swore two affidavits , dated respectively 16 January and 6 February 1992 , which set out the case of their clients . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher 's speech at Bruges in September 1988 which set out the government 's view of its relations with the European Community was drafted by her Private Secretary and foreign policy adviser , Charles Powell . |
| 27 | Just before Christmas 1985 , I published the White Paper which set out the Government 's new proposals for legislation . |
| 28 | There was no mention of the agency in the Queen 's Speech , which set out the government 's legislative plans for the new 18-month session of Parliament following the re-election of the Conservatives on 9 April . |
| 29 | Expert clauses which set out the procedure in more detail than providing that the parties have the right to make representations are probably not very helpful . |
| 30 | New detailed syllabuses have been produced , which set out the knowledge and skills that a student actuary has to master before qualification . |