Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 2 | The actual economic situation in Europe in 1918–20 clearly shows that this period of collapse has set in and that the old system of relations of production shows no signs of revival . |
| 3 | Our sense of boredom has set in — with a vengeance . ’ |
| 4 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |
| 5 | The advantages of a brewery lease is the small amount of capital needed to set up . |
| 6 | By far the greatest protection for consumers in Britain is provided by parliament , which in several important pieces of legislation has set up a framework in which the respective rights and duties of consumers and suppliers can be identified and clarified . |
| 7 | The European Federation of Biotechnology has set up a task group on the public perceptions of biotechnology . |
| 8 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 9 | The Department of Health decided to set up a development project to show how co-operative planning between hospital and local authorities could provide a comprehensive modern system of care . |
| 10 | The French section of the World Wide Fund for Nature has set up a fundraising campaign to help support a series of projects aimed at safeguarding threatened species . |
| 11 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 12 | Members in exile have set up committees in Mexico City to carry out the solidarity work they can not undertake in El Salvador because of the political repression , They have made an enormous impact both in El Salvador and abroad . |
| 13 | You do not in fact need to set up any special VMS accounts in order to run LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | So , too , were a number of producer co-operatives by workpeople determined to set up in business themselves whether , by competing with master manufacturers , to reinforce the effect of a strike ; or to counter a lock-out ; or in response to wage-cuts ; or simply to create jobs . |