Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In France , the post-war nationalizations set up a tripartite scheme of management with representation of users , public authorities and employees ( Dubois 1975 : 161–3 ; Holter 1982 ) . |
| 32 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 33 | Two stunning resorts set around a glimmering bay . ’ |
| 34 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |
| 35 | Under cover of the so-called United Nations Commission for Korea , American ruling circles set up a puppet ‘ Government ’ under the traitor Syngman Rhee , who traded away the independence and national wealth . |
| 36 | POLITICAL prevarication is blocking moves to set up an international agency to monitor military activity throughout the world using a network of spy satellites . |
| 37 | One of the first cities to set up an Architectural Department in 1938 , an exhibition in May-June 1939 illustrated plans for a redesigned civic centre , with lectures by such well known authorities on town planning as Thomas Sharp , author of Oxford Re-planned , and Clough Williams-Ellis , builder of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in Snowdonia . |
| 38 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 39 | That parishes set up a worship committee , where there is none , in order to advise the incumbent and Parochial Church Council , and to support their organist or director of music ( 555–556 , 579–580 ) . |
| 40 | The Soviet media linked the concern of the conference delegates over international tension in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to ostensible American plans to set up a new military alliance in the Red Sea area . |
| 41 | Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues . |
| 42 | The Labour leader , John Smith , is believed to have told the Scottish leadership not to support any efforts to set up a Scottish parliamentary council and Mr Clarke 's proposals are intended to maintain Lib Dem support for the convention . |
| 43 | With each post should come a set of educational objectives setting out the knowledge and skills that the doctor should have acquired by the end of the post . |
| 44 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |
| 45 | Mr Bates , a local school governor , is a supporter of the controversial Macmillan City Technology College in Middlesbrough and is fighting his campaign on four main issues : law and order , the Conservative Government 's ability to lead the country out of recession , the Prime Minister 's commitment to the health service and his expectation that Langbaurgh voters will reject the plans of other parties to set up a regional assembly . |
| 46 | So far David 's letters from a couple of children who understand his fascination but what he really wants is enough other fans to set up a collectors club for cone crazies . |
| 47 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |
| 48 | In August the Young Republicans set up a front organisation , the People 's Action League , which planned to campaign on the issue of high-rise flats , and picketed the Guildhall , calling for an extension of the city boundary and , on another occasion , at the siting of a new Michelin factory at Ballymena in County Antrim instead of Derry . |
| 49 | He and Tam Henderson spent two days setting up the recording equipment before the orchestra arrived . |
| 50 | Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance . |
| 51 | In each text , the first two sentences set up a context that makes a different one of these two structures more plausible by allowing fully referential success only for that one structure . |
| 52 | The occupying forces set up a puppet government and proclaimed it independent of Russia . |
| 53 | BP will also send out its two booklets setting out the options on application to Barry Halton , BP Exploration , 20 New Quay Road , Poole , Dorset . |
| 54 | ICI has said that all halon production will cease by 1995 , and supports government intervention through regulation and financial incentives to set up a halon bank linked to an international regulatory system . |
| 55 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 56 | But just as the Americans looked to be heading to a heavy and humiliating defeat in their first ever game against Germany , they struck back with two goals in seven minutes to set up a tense finish . |
| 57 | Many of the owners had once been renters , thus , suggesting a pattern where young migrants , who can not afford land or property rent until they have sufficient savings to set up a home of their own . |
| 58 | In another move to improve services for parents , principal child protection officer Evelyn Joseph is helping local voluntary organisations set up an advocacy project for black parents who come into contact with the child protection team . |
| 59 | The shuddering tramp of the oxen spinning the Persian wheels set over every deep well , so that the jars came up , roped with pomegranate wood withies , and tossed their icy water into the stone channels that fed the fields and the housewife 's wood buckets . |
| 60 | The merger of the TSA with the AFBD is also rationalised in terms of the increasing linkages between the securities and futures markets and the desire for both markets to set up a system for trading futures and options on a Euroindex of stocks . |