Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . |
| 2 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 3 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 4 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 5 | The offer of a truce followed a statement broadcast on Kabul radio on May 22 saying that the government had accepted the terms of a comprehensive peace settlement set out by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on May 21 . |
| 6 | A Coast Guard cutter set out after the launch at 3 p.m. 10 |
| 7 | The Stock Exchange is party to the central compensation fund set up under the Financial Services Act , in which losses due to fraud or the collapse of an institution of 100 per cent up to £30 000 and 90 per cent of losses up to £20 000 are recompensed , and then nothing after that . |
| 8 | 5.3 The Project Manager will refine the suggested committee structure set out in the Proposal and agree with the Parties the composition of the Project and Technical Committees . |
| 9 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 10 | For amps I 'm using a THD ( Tweed Fender Bassman 4x10 style ) and an old white Tolex Fender Bassman piggyback set up with a Marshall 4x12 cabinet . |
| 11 | Origin and purpose The European Investment Bank ( EIB ) is a European Community institution set up under the Treaty of Rome in 1958 as a source of long-term finance for investment projects . |
| 12 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 13 | Although the old colours ranged widely and included deep or light red , blue , ‘ grizzle ’ and all-white , nearly all had white finching and white on the belly and face and early selection was made for the famous white face in contrast to a deep , rich red body colour set off by the white brisket , belly , legs , shoulder stripe and tail switch . |
| 14 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 15 | The couple were married in 1964 and moved to Maghull , before settling in Formby where Mr Ryder set up as a pharmacist and postmaster . |
| 16 | Back in Endell Street queasiness set in with the raid 's aftermath yet it blended with a certain sense of excitement . |
| 17 | Phil Leigh set off on a mazy run , negotiating numerous tackles before crossing from the byeline to Wagstaff who found the net . |
| 18 | The UDA/UFF is now well-armed , say security sources , with weapons coming from the shadowy Ulster Resistance set up after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 . |
| 19 | That night Stirling set off in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ with his usual crew of Cooper and Seekings , Ken Allot plus two corporals from the SBS with a folding canoe , and Gordon Alston . |
| 20 | LIFESPAN identifies its offline media by a character string set up in the configuration file . |
| 21 | When the Winterthur show went to the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover as the second leg of its tour I was approached by the director of an art community set up in a distillery . |
| 22 | More than 100 jobs have also been found through a community employment and enterprise centre set up in the shopping centre and through a residents-run job club . |
| 23 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
| 24 | In July , the month in which Vincent was enrolled at the mission school , a desperate Tolstoy and his friend Stakhov set off on a pilgrimage to the Optina Pustyn Monastery not far from Moscow . |
| 25 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 26 | This year his television career set off at a run with Aah Sean , a one hour documentary which offered a cock-eyed perspective on his Dublin youth . |
| 27 | According to a World Bank report published on Sept. 23 , the administration of the US$1,200 million Environment Fund set up under the auspices of the UN was expected to face severe problems stemming from disagreements centring on the degree to which national governments would assume responsibility for environmental projects such as pollution control . |
| 28 | As was pointed out earlier , there is some uncertainty as to what constitutes a security interest ; it is submitted that the courts will adopt something along the lines of the definition of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. set out at the commencement of this chapter . |
| 29 | The original , although it is hard to believe from the fragile beauty of the copy , represented a boy boxer , Cyniscus of Mantineia , whose feats were commemorated in a bronze statue set up in the sanctuary at Olympia . |
| 30 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |