Example sentences of "[noun] and set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 2 | Before leaving the ground floor , make your notes and sketches and set out the approximate costs of making good the defects and of any necessary alterations . |
| 3 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 4 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 5 | I thank the Minister for the way in which he introduced the debate and set out the technical reasons for the order . |
| 6 | Police in Florida believe Magaly Carr , 29 , telephoned father-of-three Mr Bates and set up the fateful meeting where her boyfriend carried out the killing . |
| 7 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 8 | In 1981 the government authorised the project in principle and set up the Mediterranean-Dead Sea Company , which delivered a detailed study on engineering , economic and environmental aspects of the whole hydroelectric scheme last year . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , we often lose sight of this goal and set up the organizational layers in our managerial hierarchies to accommodate pay brackets and facilitate career development instead . |
| 10 | This introduced a new currency and set out the necessary steps of raising taxes , cutting public spending , selling state monopolies , keeping wage increases realistic and generally enlivening Argentina 's corporatist state . |
| 11 | Japanese handpainted pictures adorn the walls and set off the elegant porcelain figurines , while the walnut dining table is from Hong Kong . |