Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 2 | The occupiers had set up " popular administrations " and established their own armed police forces in December 1989 in response to the alleged electoral fraud practised by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) during the July 1989 municipal elections [ see p. 37274 ] . |
| 3 | The IPCC has set up three working groups to investigate these points , and will present its report at WMO 's second World Climate Conference in November 1990 . |
| 4 | This series has run from last March , and by now we have hopefully supplied every bit of information the beginner requires to set up an efficient basic tropical tank ( throughout this feature we back-reference for your convenience if you missed earlier articles ) . |
| 5 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 6 | They immediately had to dive for cover , however , as the Germans had set up a pair of machine guns in front of the doors behind hastily piled crates . |
| 7 | The ACPS had set up a sub-committee , under the chairmanship of Baroness Wootton of Abinger , to carry out the review . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Again she looked at him , almost resentful now ; a reaction to the fight beginning to set in . |
| 10 | In many countries , the industry has set up and funded organisations which work on these issues full-time . |
| 11 | The ELN leadership confirmed on Sept. 20 that a Socialist Renewal Movement ( CRS ) within the ELN had set up its own organization . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 13 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 14 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 15 | These aims have gained a high symbolic place in the public imagination and the institution has set out to prevent and detect acts which are usually subsumed under a generic ( but simplistic ) classification of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 16 | If there are procedures that need improvement , one reaction of the committee to a JMU report may be to ask the practice to undertake to set up or to maintain certain procedures or to change other specific arrangements . |
| 17 | There would be compensation payments , of course , but after Chernobyl the doubts had set in . |
| 18 | The Employment Service has published the jobseekers charter setting out clearly the high standards of service which the public can expect in all its offices . |
| 19 | The DSS believes that NICs are due on such payments ( the Faculty has set out the reasons why it does not agree ) , but comments that it is possible to deal with matters rather differently by the so-called ‘ statutory method ’ . |
| 20 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 21 | Members of the council agreed to set up a joint initiative involving all public agencies . |
| 22 | Did the Council have to set up some sort of emergency system ? |
| 23 | The council has set up a special investigation team to try and track down the copiers . |
| 24 | In some polytechnics and colleges students can proceed from a two-year Diploma in Higher Education to a first degree , and the CNAA has set up a Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme ( CATS ) which allows students to accumulate credits not only from a variety of higher education institutions but from accredited employer-based and experiential learning . |
| 25 | The Welshman had set off home in a cold fury . |
| 26 | The committee have set up a working party to look into the proposal . |
| 27 | The countries hope to set up similar institutes on their own ground , with an exchange of technicians . |
| 28 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 29 | The recital quoted sets out the reason for adopting such a provision ; and when it comes to interpreting one or other of those detailed provisions , the recital is helpful in setting out the overall purpose to which they relate . |
| 30 | Marcel Berlins writes : ‘ I 'm pleased to see that the Bar has set up a committee to monitor and research into sex discrimination in the profession . ’ |