Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
| 2 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 3 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 4 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 5 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 6 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 7 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 8 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 9 | Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies . |
| 10 | Fokin agreed to set up a commission to look into union grievances . |
| 11 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | In 1988 Brazil decided to set up a unified and decentralised health system and this process is now under way . |
| 14 | The two companies decided to set up a joint research and development project to find a system which would meet the new standards in a cost-effective way , and Project Alaska was born . |
| 15 | A National Communications Union official , Rachel Ashworth , told the Women 's TUC annual conference in Blackpool that British Telecom had set up a Freephone number to deal with inquiries from potential operators . |
| 16 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 17 | Mannheim had set out a project for the sociology of knowledge that opened up a potentially stimulating area of sociological inquiry . |
| 18 | They objected because Nkrumah had set up a ‘ Ghana National College ’ for the education of students expelled because of their support during the banishment of the Big Six ; they objected to his launching of the Accra Evening News , an anti-colonial voice which achieved immediate popularity ; most of all they objected to his Committee on Youth Organisation , set up as a branch of the UGCC . |
| 19 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 20 | Wakefield Council had set up an Adaptations and Disability Unit , bringing together staff from social services , environmental health and housing departments . |
| 21 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 22 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 25 | The conference agreed to set up a joint study group to look at the particularly urgent question of the DipHE , to be followed by a similar study group on the BEd . |
| 26 | Armenia , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to set up the Assembly " as a consultative institution to discuss matters and consider draft documents of common interest " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In 1983 , CRL helped to set up a test facility at the University of Cali in Colombia . |
| 29 | But the bed was manoeuvred into the room without incident , the two men departed after various forms had been signed , and Belinda and Tom began to set up the room . |
| 30 | The participants voted to set up an Association for Communication and Theological Education to carry forward the discussions held at Yale . |