Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sheffield , too , had such links ( even before reorganization ) formalized in an Industrial Development Advisory Committee , involving representatives of industry , trade unions , central government departments as well as the city council , and in the late 1970s Nottinghamshire set up an economic forum involving similar groups ( Johnson and Cochrane , 1981 , p. 171 ) . |
2 | Originally an old coaching inn set round an ancient bowling green , now carefully developed to provide up-to-date comforts in the centre of this prosperous town to the South of the City . |
3 | On May 25th the council set up an 11-member tribunal in The Hague . |
4 | In the same year , the Home Secretary set up an internal committee to examine how the right to silence might best be modified in England and Wales . |
5 | The mentality of the time is captured in the statement by Sir Alfred Mond , ICI 's first chairman , when the company set up an agricultural research station : ‘ My ideal is to see , in this as in other chemical manufactures , our great organisation controlling the production and sales of the whole chemical manufacture within the Empire . ’ |
6 | Following a statement to Parliament and his Woolwich speech in March and April 1965 , Crosland set up an informal planning group under the Minister of State , Reg Prentice , ‘ to discuss the future pattern of advanced work in the further education system ’ and ‘ the related question of the best arrangements for the government of such colleges ’ . |
7 | Recognizing this , the NFFC set up an independent unit , Group 3 , to finance low-budget films . |
8 | Jock set up an old aircraft wing with a tin of petrol inside to simulate a fuel tank , which he propped up on some oil drums . |