Example sentences of "setting [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 2 | The Lithuanian government has already leased one 10-year-old Boeing 737 from GPA , and many western airlines are exploring the opportunities for setting up joint ventures using Western aircraft . |
| 3 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 4 | The move fits in with ICL 's strategy , begun three years ago , of developing ‘ arms-length ’ businesses ; basically setting up joint ventures and autonomous companies . |
| 5 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |
| 6 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
| 7 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 8 | Only in the later 1820s is there clear evidence not only of the pursuit of mass public meetings , as at Liverpool in April 1828 , but collaboration in setting up similar meetings in other major centres . |
| 9 | The company is now setting up similar paint ventures within other car plants , not just in America . |
| 10 | Now the group 's pledged 2 000 000 pounds over the next 4 years to setting up similar hostels elsewhere . |
| 11 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 12 | Work at setting up good information sources and networks . |
| 13 | Instead there can be a series of bilateral relationships within the framework of a multilateral treaty , effectively setting up other third party relationships . |
| 14 | Consequently , while the method chosen to resolve the economic crisis brought political as well as economic benefits , it also involved the risk of setting up other political and economic tensions which might ultimately defeat the object of the exercise : the consolidation and continuation of the Franco regime . |
| 15 | Those seeking a central role for the state will doubtless query the advantages of setting up friendly societies competing for members , when a universal service is provided by the state . |
| 16 | For example , setting up visual aids for presentations , laying on special effects , getting slides made , preparing reports , and putting together material from outside services . |
| 17 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |
| 18 | On April 12 two leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj , were formally charged by a military court in the town of Blida with inciting armed rebellion and sabotage , and setting up illegal armed militias . |
| 19 | And I 'll use any tools to do that , from playing games or getting them to draw their feelings , or setting them photo assignments or working on family album photographs or using masks or setting up psycho-dramatic tableux with them . |
| 20 | Vines resigned from the College in 1838 , setting up private practice at 13 Great College Street , the third house up from the College . |
| 21 | Even the CYL became involved with the tide , setting up small businesses to help raise money ( ZGQN 16. 7. 1988 : 15 ) . |
| 22 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |
| 23 | Some firms in the US and France have tackled the problems of isolation by setting up small centres which are a meeting point for homeworkers as well as a focus for organization . |
| 24 | The Council was opposed to the idea of setting up interim validating bodies , and it would be willing to share validation with the universities . |
| 25 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 26 | Although British Government officials are hopeful that the threat of Mr Clinton setting up substantial trade barriers is receding , there is still no progress on the GATT trade agreement that could establish a sound basis for international commerce for the remainder of the century . |
| 27 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 28 | In practice , in many instances companies have fragmented the machining tasks as CNC has been introduced , setting up separate programming departments , often staffed by people from a ‘ white-collar ’ background . |
| 29 | It is directory driven so users can customise their network , setting up separate directories for say AutoCAD files and Catia files . |
| 30 | There followed a series of laws setting up separate schools for Sri Lanka 's different language-groups and establishing quotas for Sinhala-speakers in universities . |