Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] set [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 3 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 4 | TWO Lanarkshire businessmen have set up a reprographics firm which aims to compete with Middle and Far East firms for orders originating in Scotland , writes John Hatfield . |
| 5 | We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green . |
| 6 | The Los Angeles-based stars have set up a pressure group , Rock For Choice , to defend the right to abortion . |
| 7 | Its leaders have set up a West Indian Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Shridath Ramphal , a former secretary-general of the Commonwealth . |
| 8 | , According to US sources , Soviet nuclear scientists have set up a private company , CHETEK , to carry out the incineration of toxic chemicals and decommissioned nuclear reactors in underground nuclear plants . |
| 9 | Mr Tammames said : ‘ The Socialists have set up a client state where the pensioners , the people on the dole , are all sucking sustenance through government tubes . |
| 10 | Police have set up a special incident room at Coleraine RUC station and have appealed to the public to help catch the murder gang responsible for the seaside slaughter . |
| 11 | Gloucestershire police have set up a special flood hotline . |
| 12 | Police have set up a mobile incident unit outside the shop to encourage anyone with information to talk to them . |
| 13 | Police have set up a mobile incident unit outside the shop to encourage anyone with information to talk to them . |
| 14 | That 's why Thames Valley Police have set up a temporary service station near junction 10 . |
| 15 | Police have set up a regular patrol at a hospital in an effort to cut crime . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Social Services plan to set up a 24 hour helpline . |
| 17 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 18 | Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals , Japan , and ICI Resins have set up a joint venture for the marketing and production of styrene acrylic and polyester photocopier toner resins . |
| 19 | Thus , for example , several international airports have set up a system of charges related to the level of aircraft noise , with the funds raised being used to finance the insulation of nearby homes . |
| 20 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 21 | BR under scrutiny as direct rail link reaches end of line North-East councils plan to set up a steering group to discuss all aspects of British Rail services in the region . |
| 22 | She , Madeline and other colleagues have set up a London branch of the National Private Day Nurseries Association to lobby Parliament on tax relief for childcare . |
| 23 | It is as if the vegetal cells have set up a new boundary region for specifying positional information . |