Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] set [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 2 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 3 | to try and set up a scout group |
| 4 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 5 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 6 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 7 | A majority of the 1916 conference called for action to end the war , immediately provoking Hyndman and his supporters , including Jack Jones ( soon to become Labour MP for Silvertown ) and Thorne to depart and set up the National Socialist Party ( NSP ) . |
| 8 | It was not effectively designed as a movement to abolish , still less to limit , mass alcoholism , but to define and set apart the class of those individuals who had demonstrated by their personal force of character that they were distinct from the unrespectable poor . |
| 9 | We completed the agenda with time to spare and set about the ‘ European ’ items with a will . |
| 10 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |
| 11 | → There are a few things to consider when setting up a PRS guitar . |
| 12 | TAXATION PROVISIONS TO CONSIDER WHEN SETTING UP AN OVERSEAS TRUST |
| 13 | It is only when thus defined that Parliament ‘ has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatsoever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised … as having the right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament ’ . |
| 14 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 15 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |
| 16 | The following paragraphs describe the sequence of steps to follow when setting up a package . |