Example sentences of "to set [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 2 | This had little practical effect , however , until the 1890s , when public pressure forced the government to set aside areas of forest that could not be sold off to logging companies . |
| 3 | They offered the essentially optimistic message that nature was strong enough to resist destruction by human agencies — the climax could easily be restored if humankind chose to set aside areas for conservation . |
| 4 | Ministers have agreed to set aside resources totalling £4m over the next three years to enable the Library to plan and execute fire safety and precaution works , though formal approval of the figures is still awaited . |
| 5 | It must certainly be true , however , that any Company competing in product markets requiring significant technological inputs to product development needs to be able to set aside funds for this purpose . |
| 6 | UNLIKE those rich enough to set aside assets for a period of years in order to avoid tax , those dependent on income — particularly those subject to Pay As You Earn — have limited scope to fend off the taxman . |
| 7 | That the Court of Appeal possesses in particular circumstances the competence to set aside convictions ordered to be restored by the House of Lords is implicit in section 17 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , providing for referrals to the Court of Appeal by the Home Secretary . |
| 8 | The committee responded by increasing grants to voluntary agencies , entering into an agreement with Queen Mary 's Hospital and the Women 's Settlement Hospital to set aside beds for maternity cases , and producing monthly statistics on the work of health visiting staff ( ibid. 16 January , 12 June and 11 September 19 ) . |
| 9 | Section 53(1) allows the buyer to set off damages due to him for breach of warranty against the price he owes the seller . |
| 10 | The matter has now come to the High Court for an Order that this is the position and the High Court has ruled that companies and directors are entitled to set off deposits they held at BCCI against company overdrafts ( see Financial Times , 28/29 November 1992 ) . |
| 11 | Explosives experts were planning to set off mines to destroy the underground conduits which keep the lava from cooling and solidifying before it reaches inhabited areas farther down the mountain . |
| 12 | The reference to the rent being payable without any deduction is to avoid the tenant attempting to set off expenses or payments due from the landlord against the rent . |
| 13 | A Marxist interpretation of uneven development would also recognize that the development of a region is likely to set off mechanisms which eventually haIt or restrain the process . |
| 14 | The general policy is to set off overpayments in the manner that is most advantageous to the taxpayer . |
| 15 | suggestions for the best way to set up discussions in your parish or deanery |
| 16 | Many of the mergers were designed to set up monopolies to raise prices in industries such as steel , electric power and railways . |
| 17 | With their pack showing a voracious appetite for running into and beyond the heart of the visitors ' defence , Moseley were able to set up positions from which Hardcastle , who invariably took the correct options throughout , and Harknett were both able to score . |
| 18 | Companies have the right to sell their goods and services across national frontiers , and to set up agencies and branches in other member states . |
| 19 | Whereas the right of establishment entitles a company incorporated in one member state to set up agencies , branches and subsidiaries , without discrimination on grounds of nationality , in the territory of another , the purpose of the freedom to provide services is to enable a company established in one member state to do business in the territory of another without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries , and indeed without complying with all the rules and regulations of the second state , as explained below . |
| 20 | Equal access The primary objective of the EC rules with which we are here concerned is to allow companies situated in one member state to provide services across national boundaries , or , if they wish , to set up agencies , branches or subsidiaries in other member states . |
| 21 | Equally , I think we like to set up experiments first before plunging for something , so you have got in Countess Thorpe , or the Stantonbury Campus , experiments in a fuller kind of democracy which appear to be very successful if a little controversial . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , redundant miners who lost their jobs when the state-owned mines were closed are moving into the forest in increasing numbers to set up farms . |
| 23 | Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes ; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes . |
| 24 | In addition , each site has the facility to set up codes of its own for local use . |
| 25 | Most people accept that such a statute , which would be optional , not mandatory , could make it easier to set up subsidiaries or merge companies across EEC frontiers . |
| 26 | These include technical specifications which hinder or prevent trade in goods ; rules and regulations governing services which hinder non-domestic companies from trading across frontiers ; discriminatory public procurement rules which limit tendering for government contracts to domestic companies , and legal obstacles faced by foreign companies seeking to set up subsidiaries in other member states . |
| 27 | A second range of machines — TechnICL — will be pitched at small to medium size businesses wanting to set up LANs . |
| 28 | If you 've had the courage and tenacity to run through them all , you 'll have a good grasp of how to set up Windows and its groups and icons , how to manipulate windows ( resizing , closing and so on ) , how to use the File Manager , and much more . |
| 29 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 30 | More importantly , it 's er conveys to the client that we care about quality , that we 've gone to the trouble to set up procedures which make our product as good as it possibly can be . |