Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special EP2 Task Force set up to oversee the huge job combined people from both Sellafield and Risley sites . |
| 2 | Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie , administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale , has been appointed chairman of an association set up to consider the administrative problems and to determine the aims and contents of the long awaited library , and who the users will be . |
| 3 | A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide . |
| 4 | In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike . |
| 5 | Other important measures included ( i ) tax relief for a range of environmental measures ( such as those to combat land degradation ) ; ( ii ) increased tax relief for small businesses and oil exploration ; ( iii ) allocation of additional funds for industrial restructuring ; and ( iv ) increased funds for the Australian Securities Commission , a new body set up to regulate the corporate sector . |
| 6 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 7 | At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before . |
| 8 | Fourthly , Mohamed Ali set out to modernise the Egyptian economy . |
| 9 | Baghdad , as in the bunker incident at Ameriyah , came in for rough treatment when Allied airpower set out to paralyse the Iraqi nerve centre in January 1991 . |
| 10 | Yet when news reached Jedburgh that Bothwell was lying seriously wounded in his Liddesdale stronghold of Hermitage , Mary set off to ride the 50 miles there and back in a day . |
| 11 | During a debate in the Nationalrat on the report of the parliamentary commission set up to investigate the secret files affair , Arnold Koller , Justice and Police Minister , said on March 6 , 1990 , that a new law would be introduced to place the security service under the control of parliament . |
| 12 | Their model set out to predict the mean dividend yield . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the company set up to market the Landini marque in the UK has gone and the Italian range has come under the Watveare wing . |
| 14 | A UK company was incorporated , which then became the holding company of a company set up to run the Dutch business . |
| 15 | He despatched the Hurricanes in three flights , each led by a Fulmar , while from Malta three Marylands and a Sunderland set out to meet the incoming formation and lead them in . |
| 16 | Clutching his head , Umberto set out to rouse the other grooms . |
| 17 | In the first place , a working party set up to simplify the complex technicalities of the original assessment proposals generated a system which was more intelligible and rational . |
| 18 | The sales office where Riba worked was full of her colleagues and friends at her farewell presentation , with a table set aside to hold the many cards and presents which she received . |