Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once again we have set down a marker for trans-Atlantic travel with a £93 for '93 offer which is the most competitive fare available , ’ said Branson , yesterday . |
| 2 | Police were alerted when they accidentally set off a smoke alarm . |
| 3 | Resort officials had deliberately set off a number of small avalanches on Saturday morning as a normal safety procedure . |
| 4 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 5 | Norwich Hotel School has set up a Chinese cookery course to inspire future chefs . |
| 6 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 7 | ‘ What we need to do is set up a regular lunch date so everyone knows what 's happening . |
| 8 | On behalf of WHO and Unicef , the Consumer Research Laboratory ( CRL ) at Harpenden , Herts , has set up a special facility to test the equipment used to carry and store vaccines . |
| 9 | Intel has set up a recruitment office in Dublin . |
| 10 | Mr Tammames said : ‘ The Socialists have set up a client state where the pensioners , the people on the dole , are all sucking sustenance through government tubes . |
| 11 | Rosalind Wingrove , education committee chairman , said it had set up a panel to consider how best to consult parents . |
| 12 | Chrysler and Mitsubishi have already set up a $1bn ( £653m ) car plant in Illinois which has a capacity of 250,000 vehicles a year . |
| 13 | In August the Agitprop section of the Twelfth Party Conference had set up a commission to start a state subsidy for the politically reliable press . |
| 14 | The kids in the band whose guitar it really was set up a look-out in The Roebuck and , of course , they spotted him . |
| 15 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 16 | I have set up a Mormark Microlite 13 foot float rod , a Shimano 2500S reel loaded with 2 lb Maxima coupled with a 1.5 lb Double Strength hook length . |
| 17 | • Mazda has set up a research and development team to investigate ways of cutting its car 's full consumption by one-fifth by 1995 . |
| 18 | Mazda 's parent company , MCL , has set up a new company , Kia ( UK ) Ltd , to market the Mazda 121-based Kia Pride hatchback ( see Autocar & Motor , 27 February ) . |
| 19 | By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) , about a village 's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service , gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England . |
| 20 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 21 | The company has set up a job search unit to help employees find other jobs and hopes part of the reduction will be achieved through natural wastage . |
| 22 | In a further move , Chevron said it had set up a $5billion agreement with international banks to provide a fighting fund to fend off its rival . |
| 23 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 24 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 25 | They have set up a grand-sounding association dedicated to resisting the spelling changes . |
| 26 | In privatising water , the government has set up a regulatory regime biased towards raising quality rather than controlling costs — and this has played straight into the hands of the commission . |
| 27 | The Cubans hope to make their own spare parts and replacements ; lest that should fail , the state has set up a breeding-station for draft oxen . |
| 28 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
| 29 | Its leaders have set up a West Indian Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Shridath Ramphal , a former secretary-general of the Commonwealth . |
| 30 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |