Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] set [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia a proposal of 1802 to set up an institute which would offer an elaborate course extending over eight years to prepare young men for a diplomatic career led nowhere . |
| 2 | By s. 259 of a private Act of Parliament of 1836 setting up the railway line , it was provided that , if a line should be abandoned , the lands acquired for the track should vest in the owners for the time being of the adjoining lands . |
| 3 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
| 4 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
| 5 | For those setting up a CL unit for the first time , and considering purchasing a new microscope , the inexpensive Olympus POS Student Microscope has one of the best transmissivities . |
| 6 | On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians . |
| 7 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | In the Habsburg territories in central Europe , which because of their exposed geographical position and limited economic strength greatly needed an effective and well-controlled foreign policy , the Emperor Joseph I in 1709 set up a new committee of nine officials for this purpose . |
| 9 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 10 | The World Health Organization at the Alma Ata Conference in 1978 set forth the importance of community participation in primary health care . |
| 11 | In particular the assumption of the title of Emperor by Peter I of Russia in 1721 set off a series of complicated controversies ( notably with the Holy Roman Emperors who claimed a monopoly of the imperial title ) which dragged on intermittently for decades . |
| 12 | In a rather haphazard fashion , and greatly encouraged by the British , Roosevelt finally agreed in 1942 to set up the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) under the command of Colonel William Donovan . |
| 13 | Rules 6.172 to 6:177 set out the procedure for the application for a public examination , requisitioning the official receiver to apply for such an examination , at the hearing itself and the expenses of it . |
| 14 | Rules 7.2 to 7.4 set out the procedure and practice on the filing and service of originating and other applications . |
| 15 | Paragraph 2 sets out the permissible exclusions from investigation , and paragraphs 3 to 5 set out the functions of the adjudicator . |
| 16 | We proceed by first setting out the difference equations for the variables and in this case . |