Example sentences of "to set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In all its areas of involvement , LAMP helps to make oppressed and exploited communities aware of their rights , and encourages them to organise themselves to set up comprehensive development programmes . |
| 32 | Both direct approaches and efforts to set up regional recruitment events are yielding positive results in four of the regions and we are still awaiting response to the other four . |
| 33 | In the last few years , the RMCs have also been used extensively by outside clients , most notably by the MSC 's Training Services Division which has commissioned programmes for unemployed managers , especially those intending to set up small businesses . |
| 34 | In Lesotho , a project to set up small plantations for fuelwood failed to consult local villagers , and the plantations are now underused and uneconomic . |
| 35 | We are helping to set up protected National Parks and helping communities to ‘ harvest ’ the forests , so they see how much more valuable the forests are intact than cut down . |
| 36 | Faced with this failure to raise output through the wage rate , it became advantageous to the manufacturer to set up central spinning and weaving factories in order to reduce the rising cost of merchants travelling ever more extensively in search of additional putting-out workers . |
| 37 | Sixty alleged Palestinian informers or collaborators had been killed by August 1989 , as the Israeli Defence Force ( IDF ) and Shin Bet ( the Israeli secret police ) increased their use of informers to set up paramilitary groups working alongside Palestinian collaborators . |
| 38 | It was later found to be useful to set up separate databases for each functional group , which prevented earlier versions of the full database being corrupted as experiments in sorting and producing reports were carried out . |
| 39 | Hodge commented in a letter to Goodfellow , ‘ The old man has made a lot of unfortunate statements … he wants to set up separate government now and drive Russians out … |
| 40 | Peasants were united in their hostility towards the small number of households who left their villages to set up separate homesteads under Stolypin 's provisions , and , above all , towards the nobility . |
| 41 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 42 | The ability to incorporate only part of the practice will be important to those firms having or wishing to set up separate executor , trustee or nominee companies . |
| 43 | One idea is to set up alternative decision-making processes for ‘ out-of-area ’ operations . |
| 44 | They want the Government to abolish Child Benefit and all tax allowances for parents and use the money to set up full-time Community Homes for everyone under the age of sixteen . |
| 45 | Having realised that conservation is always likely to fall victim to local poverty , great efforts are being made to set up small-scale sustainable industries which depend on the long-term well-being of the rainforest and other natural ecosystems . |
| 46 | The civil servants belatedly regretted their refusal to set up contributory machinery which , though costly in the short run , would have shifted the cost of future changes in the scheme onto the contributors . |
| 47 | Mr Meacher indicated that a Labour government would be likely to set up new industrial courts presided over by judges with experience in industrial relations and two lay ‘ assessors ’ — one employer and one trade unionist who would advise the judge . |
| 48 | The many and varied attempts by governments both to take over foreign assets and to set up new state-owned businesses , have seldom been successful . |
| 49 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
| 50 | Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved . |
| 51 | Tutors are appointed as and when required and this makes it possible to set up new classes without too much preamble . |
| 52 | SoVam Teleport , now part-owned by Cable & Wireless Plc here in London , has established a new packet switching node in Ufa , Bashkirria : the new facility will enable the company to market dedicated communications lines between the city and Moscow , with connections to the rest of the public network ; Ufa is a centre of oil industry enterprises and it is at these customers that SoVam is targeting its new service ; the company also aims to set up new nodes in the cities of Chelyabinsk , Salavat and Sterlitomak in the near future . |
| 53 | The radical change in Soviet policy was epitomised when Western investors were warmly invited to buy into state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) or to set up new ventures , all with the ability freely to repatriate their profits . |
| 54 | Talking in small groups about anything without the supervising presence of a teacher is educational because it is heuristic : it helps children to set up possibilities , and to knock them down , and to set up new ones . |
| 55 | Most significant was the process by which peasants divided large households to set up new families in their own homes , and merged those which old age and death had rendered unviable . |
| 56 | So there is a range of hidden costs of community care which we have to remember when we are trying to set up new services . |
| 57 | Helps tenants and residents to set up new associations . |
| 58 | The remainder is used to set up new bureaux or develop existing ones , with grant tapering down by year 3 or 4 . |
| 59 | This project worked with existing community groups in the area , helping to set up new groups and acting as a resource for community action . |
| 60 | It would not be in our interests to set up new defence structures that would undermine the role of NATO in safeguarding our defence . |