Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They cruised into a three-goal lead with goals by Keith Adamson ( 2 ) and Craig Fish , but two strikes from Steve Wheldon set up a nervous finish . |
| 2 | In 1987 , the US Drug Enforcement Administration set up a dummy company called Eurame here in Nicosia , on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . |
| 3 | During that summer , tenants ' associations which had been formed in Rossville Flats , Meenan Park , Shantallow , Rossville Street , Lecky Road and Foyle Hill set up a central council to coordinate their activities . |
| 4 | In September last year , President Ershad set up a national committee which , according to its own press release , intends to ‘ restore honour and dignity to the tribal peoples ’ by withdrawing the army , banning further immigration and returning the land which had been ‘ illegally and fraudulently ’ seized . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 13 , the State Council set up a special group to co-ordinate the government 's response to the Shenzhen riot , headed by Zou Jiahua , a Vice-Premier and the Minister in charge of the State Planning Commission . |
| 6 | In order to monitor and facilitate this process , the Council set up a Further Education Board in 1979 which , among other things , produced a set of guidelines , which has been formally approved by the Council , for colleges submitting courses for validation . |
| 7 | Furthermore , as some of you here know , the diocese of Bath and Wells set up a working party in 1986 to set out our own policy . |
| 8 | The FAO 's breed preservation meetings began in 1966 and in 1968 the ZSL and the Royal Agricultural Society of England set up a working party to consider the problem of Britain 's vanishing breeds . |
| 9 | When was invited to conduct a review of the topic in the summer the Public Affairs Committee set up a working party ( Chairman : QC ) , and the report has been submitted to . |
| 10 | The Act set up a detailed assessment procedure for ascertaining these needs , giving parents the right to be consulted , and to appeal against an LEA 's decision about appropriate provision . |
| 11 | The promotion-winning team set off a short time ago from the County Ground to tour the town in an open-topped bus , before a civic reception given by Thamesdown Council . |
| 12 | SUPERSPY Ian Spiro set up a secret meeting with Terry Waite in Beirut organised by Colonel Oliver North , it was claimed last night . |
| 13 | To dramatize the bureaucracy 's stifling effect , the ILD set up a phoney manufacturing shop and tried to get it legally recognized , step-by-step . |
| 14 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 15 | And so did Elvis have his road crew set up a mighty speaker system outside the walls . |
| 16 | A neat interchange in the 24th minute set up a good chance for Dinamo 's Djamaravli , but he scooped his shot high and wide . |
| 17 | KARL FAIRBANK 'S try was the difference as Bradford set up a Regal Trophy quarter-final against holders Widnes on Sunday at Odsal . |
| 18 | In 1879 , breeders in Friesland set up a separate herdbook , the Friesch Rundvee Stamboek ( FRS ) . |
| 19 | But to the screams of excitement from the biggest crowd ever to gather in the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium , over 54,000 of them , Marcio Santos set up a furious climax with a diving header . |
| 20 | But to the screams of excitement from the biggest crowd ever to gather in the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium , over 54,000 of them , Marcio Santos set up a furious climax with a diving header . |
| 21 | Aware of the need for effective practical techniques of odour control , in June 1971 , the Department of the Environment set up a working party with the following terms of reference : ‘ To examine the problems of unpleasant odours emitted by offensive and selected other trades , and to make recommendations about the best practicable means for their minimisation and suppression ’ . |
| 22 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 23 | On his return to Uralmash from a business course in West Germany in 1988 , Mr Korovin set up a joint venture with an Austrian company to make equipment for the continuous casting of steel . |
| 24 | In March 1983 Mr Heseltine set up a special unit , Defence Secretariat 19 ( DS19 ) , to combat CND propaganda on unilateral disarmament . |
| 25 | In 1860 Frith set up a photographic company in Reigate to record as many locations in Britain as he could . |
| 26 | Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn set up a .50 calibre gun and fired on the attackers , he was wounded several times but continued to fight back , later he was awarded the Medal of Honour . |
| 27 | The international tribunal will be the first such court since the United States , Britain , Russia and France set up a military tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945 to try Nazi criminals . |
| 28 | In 1988 the Long-term Credit Bank of Japan set up a joint investment advisory company with Foreign & Colonial Management . |
| 29 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 30 | The government set up a high-level council for alternative economics on Nov. 6 , under the chairmanship of Liberal Party leader Igor Merkulov , to work out a strategy for building a market economy , including measures to strengthen the currency coupon and , later , Ukraine 's new currency against the US dollar . |