Example sentences of "[be] to set [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hand the work over to elected local authorities covering an extensive area would be to set up bodies with a genuine degree of independence and power , and this is suspect . |
| 2 | The hope is to set up groups across Scotland to discuss health issues on a local level and it is for them that the recruitment drive has been started . |
| 3 | Its essential purpose is to set up standards for computing which reflect the users ' requirements rather than manufacturers ' convenience . |
| 4 | The general policy is to set off overpayments in the manner that is most advantageous to the taxpayer . |
| 5 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 6 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |