Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 2 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 3 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |
| 4 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 5 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 6 | The team that ended the 1960s was dumped , and Ripley-Rust and Pybus set about the daunting task of building a squad capable of winning promotion when the club 's League career got underway again . |
| 7 | In response to this unrest , the National Advisory Council on Art Education ( NACAE ) and the NCDAD set up the joint Coldstream-Summerson committee to examine the structure of higher art and design education and suggest improvements . |
| 8 | William Perkins sets out the conventional position vis-à-vis class . |
| 9 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 10 | John Rose set up the famous porcelain factory at Coalport in 1785 , and it became noted for the fine quality of its decoration and lavish gilding . |
| 11 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 12 | In his He Who Is : A Study in Traditional Theism ( intended as a response to Martin Buber 's I and Thou ) and in his work Existence and Analogy , Mascall sets out the main arguments of the Thomist . |
| 13 | In 1988 , some time before the USSR began to crumble , Martyn Assirati set up the Russian Wine Company in London and travelled east to see what he could find . |
| 14 | Gabriel set down the rusty metal bird , dismissing the thing with a jab of his foot . |
| 15 | In 1988 McBain set up The Electronic Studio , a technology and business systems specialist . |
| 16 | Quarterback Stan Humphries threw for 275 yards , including 46 yards to Nate Lewis to set up the winning fourth-quarter touchdown . |
| 17 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 18 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 19 | Table 5 — 23(4) ( a ) in the SFA Rulebook sets out the required contents of a two-way customer agreement . |
| 20 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |
| 21 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
| 22 | Vi set down the standeasy tray . |