Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur had set up a rural-type training settlement on an island in the middle of the Kokine lake , just outside the university of Rangoon . |
| 2 | Chen Chang-wen , secretary-general of the SEF , and Tang Shubei , deputy director of the TAO , agreed that formal talks on the principle of " one China " would be held early in 1992 , as soon as China had set up a non-governmental counterpart to the SEF . |
| 3 | He claimed in an open letter to BA directors that executives had set up a secret ‘ anti-Virgin Atlantic unit ’ to discredit him and his company . |
| 4 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 5 | Information Minister Alex Akinyele , describing the report as " totally false " , said that the government had set up a special fund to receive oil earnings in excess of budgeted levels . |
| 6 | Yousefi had set up a false bank account in the name of Momen Garawand at the Darlington branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 7 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 8 | Rourke had set up the whole annoying episode . |
| 9 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 10 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
| 11 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
| 12 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
| 13 | His party argued the Tories had set up a Economic Development Forum but had not put enough money in . |