Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] set [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some retailers set aside an area in the storeroom or warehouse as a ‘ goods received area ’ where goods are priced soon after delivery from the supplier . |
| 2 | Rick had gone to Cheltenham to help some friends to set up an art exhibition and Lou had gone with him . |
| 3 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 4 | That parishes set up a worship committee , where there is none , in order to advise the incumbent and Parochial Church Council , and to support their organist or director of music ( 555–556 , 579–580 ) . |
| 5 | The Labour leader , John Smith , is believed to have told the Scottish leadership not to support any efforts to set up a Scottish parliamentary council and Mr Clarke 's proposals are intended to maintain Lib Dem support for the convention . |
| 6 | The merger of the TSA with the AFBD is also rationalised in terms of the increasing linkages between the securities and futures markets and the desire for both markets to set up a system for trading futures and options on a Euroindex of stocks . |