Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new clauses are designed to set out the structure for a funding council skeleton on which such structures would be built . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State was tackling negligent parents in a wide-ranging , keynote address to Conservative Party members in Aberdeen , designed to set out the Government 's renewed — but traditional — agenda for schooling . |
| 3 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 4 | At the same time , there is continuous pressure from creative people for simplicity in the briefs they are given and the creative brief , clearly , needs to set out the strategy in a way that is intelligible to , and usable by , the creative team : if it is n't , it 's useless . |
| 5 | To revert to an old style would be to try to set back the clock and deny the progress which had been made and made under divine providence . |
| 6 | If you actually want to set up the society yourself , find ten little friends , come along , ten people giving the number you need to form a society one pound each for membership , I shall give you all the er relevant data and you can start up your side in whatever it be as long as it does n't contravene union policy on sexism , racism etcetera . |
| 7 | you want to set up the printer . |
| 8 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 9 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 10 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 11 | Dave Brown has set up the Canoe Polo Sports Clinic . |
| 12 | Responding to scientific reports from South and North America , Europe and Australia that millions of toads , frogs and salamanders are dying , the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has set up the Task Force on Dwindling Amphibian Populations . |
| 13 | A Practice Direction ( 18 December 1986 , ( 1987 ) 1 All ER 604 ) has set out the evidence which will suffice to justify an order for substituted service : ( a ) one personal call at the residence and place of business of the debtor where both are known or at either of such places as is known . |
| 14 | Beverley has set about the task of designing monoclonals that can recognise the surfactant material and therefore indicate its presence or absence in the lungs of newborn babies . |
| 15 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 16 | Annette Chinnery , one of the reunion organisers , has set about the task of compiling a year-book . |
| 17 | The prevarication has set back the effort six months , said Sarfas , and OSF/1 for the Alphas will now emerge first , early next year . |
| 18 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 19 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 20 | Mr Chettle , who comes originally from St Albans , helped set up the Aspex Gallery , a major artists studio base in Portsmouth . |
| 21 | Right do we want to set up the mouse to display the environment , or what ? |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
| 24 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 25 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 26 | Further to our meeting last Friday , I am writing to set out the advice and assistance that we are able to provide in connection with the intended sale of Older Business Limited . |
| 27 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 28 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 29 | It was decided to set up the PMIS as part of an " on-line " system ( directly connected to the computer ) using a computer terminal for input and output . |
| 30 | Julia cleared the glasses from round the room and prepared to set out the coffee on the drum table beside the chief armchair . |