Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] set [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has accepted Tomlinson 's recommendation for investment in premises and has set up an initiative zone to encourage new ideas . |
| 2 | They have been exacerbated by rumours that ethnic Germans from Soviet Asia are to be moved into the Kaliningrad region and allowed to set up an autonomous republic there . |
| 3 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 4 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |
| 5 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |
| 6 | It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi . |