Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] set [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Back in Endell Street queasiness set in with the raid 's aftermath yet it blended with a certain sense of excitement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | LIFESPAN identifies its offline media by a character string set up in the configuration file . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 24 | There 's this big brass band set up in the middle of the station with these people sitting in chairs with their instruments all silvery and shiny . |
| 25 | He says that the incinerator conforms to strict new guiidlines about air pollution set down by the Government . |
| 26 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 27 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 28 | This is an important tier within the complicated government structure set up for the health service , with responsibilities for the allocation of resources and for strategic planning . |
| 29 | Sun users in education and research can access public domain software , shareware , research articles and images via InterNet and SunSite , a new easy-to-use interactive information repository set up with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . |
| 30 | In the past six months , 65,000 people have joined the Reform of Heisei , a pressure group set up in the wake of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal by Kenichi Ohmae , the Tokyo head of the management consultancy , McKinsey . |