Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research sets out to study the introduction of a new domestic technology the microwave oven , tracing its life-trajectory through a string of case studies . |
| 2 | The special EP2 Task Force set up to oversee the huge job combined people from both Sellafield and Risley sites . |
| 3 | Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie , administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale , has been appointed chairman of an association set up to consider the administrative problems and to determine the aims and contents of the long awaited library , and who the users will be . |
| 4 | The Child Support Act sets out to increase the amount of maintenance paid by former partners , both in terms of the actual amounts paid by individuals and in terms of the number of people paying . |
| 5 | The test sets out to examine the child 's command of a range of syntactic forms in terms of both comprehension and production . |
| 6 | A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide . |
| 7 | The new council set up to reform the judiciary fell under the control of the Supreme Court , which was generally seen as being heavily under the influence of Cristiani 's right-wing ruling National Republic Alliance ( Arena ) . |
| 8 | The ‘ substantial case ’ for compensation was underlined yesterday by the local authority co-ordinating committee set up to represent the interest of councils which lost money . |
| 9 | The players will form part of a six man committee set up to oversee the Subscription Scheme which chairman Wallace Mercer hopes will entice fans to help pay for the renovations . |
| 10 | Lord Justice Higgins was appointed as a county court judge in 1971 and in 1975 he became a member of a special committee set up to review the Emergency Provisions Act . |
| 11 | The 1947 Act set out to remedy the deficiencies . |
| 12 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 13 | The act set out to reduce the powers of the unions . |
| 14 | Drawing from the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ortega Gasset and from the history of science , the author sets out to define the nature of psychological life which , he believes , has been obscured by too-ready an acceptance of psychology as part of the natural sciences . |
| 15 | AN UNUSUAL performance by traditional Hindu dancers and an opera singer sets out to illuminate the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan , the Indian mathematical genius , to the accompaniment of string and percussion . |
| 16 | A special steering group set up to examine the idea has chosen Citigen , a joint venture between British Gas and two French energy management companies , from six tenders for the system . |
| 17 | And an action group set up to fight the route looks set to demand a meeting with Mr Hunt 's successor , John Redwood . |
| 18 | Welford 's Cambridge group set out to identify the nature of the work for which the older worker was best suited and the most suitable methods of retraining those whose skills had become redundant as the result of modifications in the industrial process ( Welford 1951 ) . |
| 19 | Other important measures included ( i ) tax relief for a range of environmental measures ( such as those to combat land degradation ) ; ( ii ) increased tax relief for small businesses and oil exploration ; ( iii ) allocation of additional funds for industrial restructuring ; and ( iv ) increased funds for the Australian Securities Commission , a new body set up to regulate the corporate sector . |
| 20 | The Farm Animal Welfare Council , an independent body set up to advise the Ministry of Agriculture , suggested that 600 square centimetres should be adopted as a minimum allowance in Europe . |
| 21 | Across the table sat the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ) , a Beijing front organisation set up to give the SEF a liaison partner . |
| 22 | This paper sets out to examine the factors behind foreign portfolio investment in the United Kingdom since the mid-1970s . |
| 23 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 24 | Baghdad , as in the bunker incident at Ameriyah , came in for rough treatment when Allied airpower set out to paralyse the Iraqi nerve centre in January 1991 . |
| 25 | During a debate in the Nationalrat on the report of the parliamentary commission set up to investigate the secret files affair , Arnold Koller , Justice and Police Minister , said on March 6 , 1990 , that a new law would be introduced to place the security service under the control of parliament . |
| 26 | A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the extent of the responsibility of the security service ( StB ) for , and the political background to , the violent police action against student demonstrators on Nov. 17 , 1989 [ see p. 37026 ] published its report on May 9 . |
| 27 | Some ten to fifteen years later the French eyewitness accounts were to be corroborated by their erstwhile enemies at the court of enquiry set up to determine the extent and nature of the pillage by the Prussian troops involved in the pursuit . |
| 28 | The poem sets out to justify the ways of God to men , and what little time is left me will be devoted to justifying the ways of god to men , and we must begin this , sorry we must begin this by a word on on the fall — the way of God the ways of God to men of course are punishing men for the fall . |
| 29 | Further , the principle of freely swapping weather data could be undermined by a firm setting out to market the information at the highest price . |
| 30 | In one area of the central fruit-growing region , north-east of Santiago , 600 seasonal workers have joined a new union set up to address the needs of the seasonal labourers and their families and to negotiate with employers . |