Example sentences of "to set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | insists on a proper response to complaints and on action to set right the problems behind them . |
| 2 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 3 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 4 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 5 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 6 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 7 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 8 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 9 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 10 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 11 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 12 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 13 | Students of the British public sector have attempted to set down the ‘ typical ’ features of industrial relations in nationalized industries . |
| 14 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 15 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 16 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 17 | Held , dismissing the appeal , the issue was whether , on June 13 , the justices had any jurisdiction to set aside the convictions recorded on May 16 . |
| 18 | The relevant conditions of section 142(2) and ( 4 ) were mandatory , not directory , and unless they were established there was no jurisdiction to set aside the earlier conviction . |
| 19 | The justices purported to set aside the conviction 29 days after the finding of guilt and none of the convicting justices had been a party to the decision to set it aside , so neither of the two conditions obtained . |
| 20 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 21 | The trial judge refused , however , to set aside the charge , ‘ it not having been established that the bank or its officers exercised any undue influence over Mrs. Perry . ’ |
| 22 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 23 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 24 | A registrar having made that order , and the administrators having refused to disclose that statement to the accountants , the accountants applied to the court for leave under rule 9.5 of the Rules of 1986 to inspect the statement of grounds and to set aside the registrar 's order . |
| 25 | Morritt J. refused the application for leave to inspect but Hoffmann J. granted the application to set aside the registrar 's order . |
| 26 | The day before it was due to take effect , the tenant , having learnt of the order , made an application to set aside the order for possession and the judgment which had resulted in that order . |
| 27 | That course would doubtless prompt an application by the P.C.A. to set aside the subpoena on grounds of public interest immunity . |
| 28 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not find it easy , ’ said Abbot Radulfus , with a distinct chill in his voice , ‘ to set aside the issue of murder . |
| 30 | When the statutory demand is based on a judgment , the court will not normally go behind the judgment and inquire into the validity of the debt nor will it adjourn the application to await the result of an application to set aside the judgment ( Practice Direction , 6 January 1987 , ( 1987 ) 1 All ER 607 ) . |