Example sentences of "[prep] set [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mia launched her search for a doggy companion after setting up temporary home in Ireland during the filming of ‘ Widow 's Peak ’ on location . |
| 2 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 3 | The terms of reference of the Northern Ireland Panel were to commission a programme of research on Northern Ireland within a budget of £350,000 ( 1980 Survey Prices ) ; to consider how the social science research capacity for work on this area , particularly within Northern Ireland , might be enhanced in the commission of that programme ; to commission a register of recent and current research on Northern Ireland ; to liaise with the Northern Ireland Office and other relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant researchers in Great Britain and other countries with a view to the possibility of setting up comparative studies ; and to advise researchers in Northern Ireland , who wish to seek finance from the ESRC general research funds or from other agencies . |
| 4 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 5 | Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them . |
| 6 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 7 | Those seeking a central role for the state will doubtless query the advantages of setting up friendly societies competing for members , when a universal service is provided by the state . |
| 8 | The authorities in Beijing realised that ‘ many college students … suffered serious mental problems because of loneliness or anxiety over their studies or love lives ’ ( CD 23. 2. 1988 ) and several major institutions were talking of the possibility of setting up advisory bodies for students with emotional problems , but few actually existed . |
| 9 | If he soldiered on , he was open to the temptation of setting up false credit , to engage in adventurous speculation , to concealing his true situation from his clerks , and to despair of mind . |
| 10 | His officials have concluded that the consultants under-estimated the cost of setting up large councils and over-estimated the cost of smaller ones . |
| 11 | • the possibility of setting up shared arrangements through personal contacts ( always worth giving me a call , I can be a communications link ) |
| 12 | ’ They virtually killed off our season when they beat us in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge last year , but now we have the incentive of setting up another Mersey derby if we win . ’ |
| 13 | The official purpose of setting up these institutions was to meet the rapidly growing demand for higher education within further education without prejudicing opportunities for students following non-advanced courses and to make more rational and effective use of the resources available . |
| 14 | One advantage of setting up these centres is that they may help a two-way flow of ideas for efficient technology , possibly serving as a model for changes to Western society . |
| 15 | The fact of the matter is that in terms of setting up some kind of economic common market , much of the groundwork had already been done . |
| 16 | You were going to contact someone in ADSW ( I regret I forget the name ) with regard to the possibility of setting up some form of Communications Group representing all Departments in Scotland that would meet perhaps every quarter or half year . |
| 17 | Some firms find the problem of setting out hourly rates some-what daunting . |
| 18 | Yeah you you you sort of set off several legends in your lifetime Adam erm le let's just er either destroy or establish one legend . |
| 19 | They may be called upon to set up in-store displays and other promotions for wholesalers and retailers . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Barnard , who lost his royalty rights to this particular version of the program , wasted no time in setting up Ace Microsystems . |
| 21 | Systematic manipulation of information in films of the type used in Studies 2 , 3 and 4 , however , is not possible , firstly because of the difficulty in setting up appropriate driving situations for filming and secondly because it is not yet clear exactly which details are the important ones . |
| 22 | Only in the later 1820s is there clear evidence not only of the pursuit of mass public meetings , as at Liverpool in April 1828 , but collaboration in setting up similar meetings in other major centres . |
| 23 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 24 | Farmers are also being given access to grant aid to help in setting up extra activities to supplement their farming income . |
| 25 | A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices . |
| 26 | Some staff involved in setting up new schedules for BBC Scotland raise another concern . |
| 27 | It will then be so interested in setting up new territories that it will hardly notice the newcomer . |
| 28 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 29 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |
| 30 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |