Example sentences of "[vb past] set [adv prt] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) on March 18 obtained a local ceasefire in order to send a mission to Stepanakert , where it planned to set up an operational base . |
| 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 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
| 4 | Gerry : Even though we talked about the report on ethnic minorities for a bit , more importantly we discussed setting up an independent Black group with our own structures and demands . |
| 5 | Gallie summarised the views of Blauner , Mallet , and Naville because he wished to set up an empirical test of their theses . |
| 6 | According to Le Monde of April 4 the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) had set up an 11-member " government " in the north . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 9 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 10 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |