Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIY inquiry : A public inquiry into a top DIY chain store 's bid to set up in Stockton opens today in the town hall . |
| 2 | The Milice was a political police force set up by Vichy to safeguard Pétain 's National Revolution and combat enemies of the ‘ new moral order ’ , identified as communists , freemasons and Jews . |
| 3 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 4 | Mr Summerchild , it was pointed out , was employed in the Government Commission , the department set up by Harold Wilson in 1965 to coordinate the workings of the various ministries . |
| 5 | August 1986 , Labour councillor Pandura Perera cites SMG as example of political cell set up by GLC ostensibly as community group … |
| 6 | Inset : The River Bus , MV Conrad Chelsea Harbour sets off from Lambeth Pier with its royal passenger on board . |
| 7 | This is a two year review and strategy development programme set up in November 1990 by the deputy prime minister , Brian Howe . |
| 8 | But Labour 's John Smith asked what had happened to Mrs Thatcher 's conditions for entry set out in Madrid . |
| 9 | The 106 entrants in the gruelling marathon set off from London on a route which took them through Europe to Turkey in classic cars ranging from a Ford Cortina to a Russian Moskvitch , all at least 25 years old . |
| 10 | But by the time the delegation set out for Paris , the French Draft Constitution had already been rejected — and with it the principle of free consent on which the French Union was to be based — and while he was still en route to France Ho learned that a Provisional Government of Cochinchina had been announced . |
| 11 | It was another sunny morning and I took the opportunity to set off with Singi , our assistant sirdar , for a shapely rock peak rising above the campsite and offering the prospect of an interesting climb and a good viewpoint . |
| 12 | Opposition groups criticized as inadequate a preliminary draft of a new constitution presented on April 4 by the constitutional committee set up by President Hassan Gouled Aptidon in January [ see p. 38711 ] ; the proposal retained a strong executive presidency . |
| 13 | Mexico City 's long-running air pollution problems [ see ED 53/54 and passim ] are to be addressed by a special committee set up by President Carlos Salinas . |
| 14 | An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle . |
| 15 | His Pacelli grandfather had served Pius IX in the administration of the papal states : his father Filippo was a lawyer practising in the papal courts — he became an adviser to the commission for the codification of canon law set up by Pius X in 1904 . |
| 16 | Further the test set out in Hitchcock v WB and FEB ( 1952 ) 2 QB 561 had been replaced by the test in Re W which set out all that any judge needed to do in making a decision . |
| 17 | With Mesic openly urging JNA soldiers and officers to desert , a large JNA armoured column set out from Belgrade on Sept. 19 . |
| 18 | The purchaser , according to Price Waterhouse , will keep both operations , its subsidiary set up in Irvine , California and its UK operations running as normal — the headquarters will remain UK-based in Reading , Berkshire . |
| 19 | Eduard Shevardnadze , the chair of the State Council set up in March [ see pp. 38826-27 ] , said that the treaty would " completely solve " the question of Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) forces stationed in Georgia . |
| 20 | The North Atlantic Co-operation Council ( NACC ) , the joint security forum of the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact set up in November 1991 [ see pp. 38600 , 38699 ] , held its second meeting in Brussels on March 10 . |
| 21 | HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson will this week meet the steering committee set up on Friday to represent Heron 's 82 bankers to negotiate a standstill agreement on its £1.22 billion debt . |
| 22 | The function of the European Legislation Committee set up in December 1972 was therefore confined to determining which proposals were legally important or politically important and to advising which of these should be debated by the full House . |
| 23 | Tensions increased when the NGC sought the right to disburse steadfastness money instead of the Jordanian-PLO Joint Committee set up in Amman . |
| 24 | He did so in order that the just requirement set out in God 's law might be fulfilled in us who live our lives not after the principle of self-effort but in the power of the Spirit . |
| 25 | The group will concentrate on developing the technology , rather than producing systems it will work closely with the University Research Group set up by ICL a year ago . |
| 26 | Vets and police refer grieving owners to the voluntary bereavement group set up by Yvette Price-Mear , of Mansfield Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire . |
| 27 | Shares in some 30 other companies have been sequestered and put in the control of the Presidential Commission on Good Government , the body set up by Mrs Aquino to untangle the financial affairs of the Marcos era . |
| 28 | He was elected vice-chairman of the Basic Law Consultative Committee , the body set up by Peking to promote awareness and discussion of post-1997 constitutional arrangements in Hong Kong . |
| 29 | The north-east monsoon sets in during October . |
| 30 | Thanks to its central mountain range , Sri Lanka has two monsoons : the North-East monsoon sets in during October , the South-West monsoon in April . |