Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] set [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 10.30am It 's Alan 's job to set up the picture , arrange various props and decide on the complicated lighting .
2 Italy 's monarchy set up the agency 100 years ago to provide services to some 90 regional consortia that helped farmers and food companies sell their output and buy supplies .
3 Christopher White 's introduction sets out the history of the collection , plus six-page bibliography .
4 The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank .
5 Government sources declined to confirm or deny the contents of the list , but MPs believe some of the services will almost certainly figure in the Queen 's Speech setting out the legislative programme for the next session of Parliament .
6 Baldwin 's speech sets out the boundaries within which the press must operate : it can act as an adjunct of the political parties , it can be the mouthpiece of the parties or politicians and it may even criticize governments in power , but it can not transgress the real line which marks off dependence on , from independence of , the political parties .
7 In May 1989 , the Judges ' Council set out the majority views of High Court and Court of Appeal judges .
8 The Lay Folks ' Catechism sets out the fundamentals of the faith under six headings : fourteen points of truth ; the ten commandments and the two Gospel commandments ; the seven sacraments ; the works of mercy ; the seven virtues ; the seven sins .
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