Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] set [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects . |
| 2 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 3 | A half-crescent of recently cut hair set round a receding scalp . |
| 4 | During the trial it was revealed Yousefi set up a false bank account in the name of Momen Garawand at the Royal Bank of Scotland , in Darlington . |
| 5 | All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly . |
| 6 | Among its other demands are : i ) that manufacturers should be obliged to take back and recycle products at the end of their useful life ; ii ) that the EC should take steps to set up a comprehensive system of environmental liability ; and iii ) that environmental impact assessments on construction projects and other EC-funded programmes be strictly enforced both within and outside Europe . |
| 7 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 8 | The DTI and the DES have provided £2m to set up a pilot scheme . |
| 9 | The slow progress of PWA led Roosevelt to set up a large-scale temporary relief agency , the Civil Works Administration ( CWA ) , to see the nation through the winter . |
| 10 | AEA Technology and Amersham International plc have joined forces to set up a new international environmental management business . |
| 11 | It was also the turn of Kenneth Clarke today ; the Health Secretary did n't have quite so much up his sleeve , but he did announce plans to set up a nationwide programme of health targets . |
| 12 | The Malaysian government has announced plans to set up a special task force in Europe to carry out counter-propaganda work against environmentalist criticism of its logging operations in Sarawak and its treatment of the Penan people . |
| 13 | Concern over the future of broadleaved woodlands in Wales , stimulated by the threat from grazing to the oakwoods of the uplands , has led NCC to set up a Welsh Wildwood campaign with representation from a wide range of statutory and voluntary bodies plus local Authorities . |
| 14 | Franklin placed his own hopes on the idea that the Westminster Parliament would pass legislation to set up a union . |
| 15 | That enabled Northampton to set up a five-yard scrum and they pushed Nottingham over their line to score a try touched down by Shelford . |
| 16 | It wants to raise funds to set up a special service for Northern Ireland , and ensure that every child 's call is answered first time . |
| 17 | With the wind advantage in the second half , St Aloysius took command and on only two occasions did Galashiels set up a sustained attack . |
| 18 | RENTING instead of buying can save people setting up a home more than £2,000 a year , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 19 | Motown , a leading black record company , is now making moves to set up a Nashville branch . |
| 20 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 21 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 22 | Britain is now wondering whether to copy France and oblige industry to set up a recycling scheme of its own . |
| 23 | Indeed , he had urged Heath to set up a policy group on crime , writing : |
| 24 | After their dismissal the first and sixth defendants drafted a business plan for the purpose of raising finance to set up a Bureau de Change business in competition with the plaintiffs . |