Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 2 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 3 | to try and set up a scout group |
| 4 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 5 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 6 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 7 | But protestors objected and set up the Heart of Cheshire Action Group to fight the plans . |
| 8 | Mr Major has said that setting up a Scottish parliament would lead to Scottish MPs becoming ‘ second class ’ , speeding the break-up of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | A majority of the 1916 conference called for action to end the war , immediately provoking Hyndman and his supporters , including Jack Jones ( soon to become Labour MP for Silvertown ) and Thorne to depart and set up the National Socialist Party ( NSP ) . |
| 10 | Once accepted as setting up a trust , this no doubt gives the beneficiary , who is also the addressee , an action against the heir , or against whatever other beneficiary of the estate is in possession of the object in question . |
| 11 | We completed the agenda with time to spare and set about the ‘ European ’ items with a will . |
| 12 | He was dressed in a dark suit , expensively tailored , and a plain white shirt and bright silk tie that set off the crisp , glossy blackness of his hair . |
| 13 | Attractions included a travelling funfair that set up every year on the field beside the factory 's private runway and a gigantic firework display during the evening . |
| 14 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |
| 15 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 16 | It was agreed that there should be further investigation into optimum methods of publicising such an event in the future , and it was noted that setting up a central diary of events might help to reduce the chances of conflicting or uncomfortably close dates for similar events being chosen . |
| 17 | Some members also believe that setting up a faculty would be tantamount to handing auditing on a plate to those critics of the profession who have called for auditing matters to be placed under independent control . |
| 18 | Let me try and set down the opposing points of view . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll call and set up a visit a.s.a.p . |
| 20 | However a hand drill can be a useful extra tool for making holes in locations remote from a power supply , or simply for a one-off drilling job in the workshop for which it is not worth unpacking and setting up a power tool . |
| 21 | SCOTVEC has devoted a substantial amount of time to debating how staff development might proceed and set up an ad hoc group to undertake more detailed discussions . |
| 22 | → There are a few things to consider when setting up a PRS guitar . |
| 23 | TAXATION PROVISIONS TO CONSIDER WHEN SETTING UP AN OVERSEAS TRUST |
| 24 | Sampling lists , that is , a record which identifies and sets out the population from which a sample is to be drawn , may not always completely enumerate the population from which the sample is to be drawn , the list may follow some peculiar sequence , sections of the population may be difficult to contact or refuse to co-operate , and so on . |
| 25 | Just have a try and h try and set up a c a a a meeting with this Sally and your engineering winger |
| 26 | The British Association for Shooting and Conservation says it will campaign against changes to current regulations , arguing that setting up a complicated bureaucracy to control shooting will only cause confusion . |
| 27 | In essence , the Lady of the Hearth represents the way in which we choose and set out a bounded space in which to live , the fire we light at its centre , and the way we use the heat which the fire provides . |
| 28 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 29 | But his smile froze as Tristan appeared and set down the tureens before him . |
| 30 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |