Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radical change in Soviet policy was epitomised when Western investors were warmly invited to buy into state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) or to set up new ventures , all with the ability freely to repatriate their profits . |
| 2 | And I 'll use any tools to do that , from playing games or getting them to draw their feelings , or setting them photo assignments or working on family album photographs or using masks or setting up psycho-dramatic tableux with them . |
| 3 | He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals . |
| 4 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 5 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |
| 6 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 7 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 8 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 9 | We can do no more here than set down general guidelines . |
| 10 | The erm , the the nature of the erm the fourteenth of June , the the the Total Quality minute , the it seems to be referring to a document that sets out various phases of the er Total Quality programme . |
| 11 | Derrida himself , therefore , does not in any sense abjure history ( or totality ) but rather attempts to reinscribe it by writing histories that set up supplementary figures whose logic simultaneously invokes and works against historical totalities . |
| 12 | A pool is also a focus of attention and you can use plants with contrasting flower and foliage that set up interesting patterns in their own right . |
| 13 | Nuclear Electric was one of 10 identical yachts that set off last September to race 28,000 miles the wrong way round the world , against the winds and currents , crewed by amateurs who 'd paid £15,000 apiece . |
| 14 | In terms of what they were doing , they were crude , heavy-handed models , more likely to destroy the brain than control it ; systems of blocks and stimulae that set off whole chains of unwanted chemical and electrical responses . |
| 15 | Talking in small groups about anything without the supervising presence of a teacher is educational because it is heuristic : it helps children to set up possibilities , and to knock them down , and to set up new ones . |
| 16 | The form of work organisation adopted by management in the Durham coalfield , at first , was to formally separate the three major production processes of preparation , coal-getting , and advancing ( the props , conveyors , etc. ) and to set up distinct groups , each working a whole shift , to perform each process . |
| 17 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 18 | It is the responsibility of the offline manager to log on to LIFESPAN and to set up various parameters for the offline run . |
| 19 | We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management . |
| 20 | If combination is atomic , then it should be possible to symbolize chemical compounds , and to set out chemical reactions in a kind of algebra . |
| 21 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 22 | Q S P Six er gives generic job descriptions and sets down broad responsibility statements relating to quality and safety . |
| 23 | In general there was concern to protect the security of their own providers in the first year , to try to sort out the information base for contracting and setting up appropriate systems . |
| 24 | In practice , the best combination of instruments for a particular procedure is largely a matter of trial and error but once a simple technique , such as the two-instrument injection method , has been mastered the principles of making and setting up extra instruments will be self-evident . |
| 25 | The problem of making managers accountable , monitoring performance and setting up effective control systems . |
| 26 | The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order . |
| 27 | The money will be used to step up technological know-how , to purchase restoration equipment and set up entire restoration studios in some countries including Colombia and Cuba . |
| 28 | Yvonne Simpson , honorary secretary of the BDA 's Darlington branch , said many hospitals had now gone beyond special staff and set up diabetic units staffed by consultants . |
| 29 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |
| 30 | He settled into an export-import office in Bush House in the Strand , and set up parallel networks of secret intelligence agents to cover the penetrated areas , using the codename Z and avoiding the use of wireless . |