Example sentences of "[verb] to set [adv prt] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickes Developments wants to set up a 31,000 square foot superstore at Lustrum Avenue , Portrack , but the council turned down the plan saying it would take trade away from the town centre , and create traffic problems . |
| 2 | In all the countries across Europe , the most likely individuals handling Virgin material for the licensee in that country were approached to set up the new local Virgin office . |
| 3 | The Democratic Platform at a conference on March 18-19 had begun discussing whether it should prepare to set up a new political party immediately after the July congress , if its policies were not adopted . |
| 4 | Defence and foreign ministers of the nine member countries of the Western European Union ( WEU ) , meeting in Bonn , Germany , on June 19 , agreed to set up a joint military force which could be deployed for peacekeeping , humanitarian and other missions , including the deployment of " combat forces in crisis management " , in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 5 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 6 | A new bid is being made to set up a 25-stall weekly market on land at the rear of The Three Tuns Hotel , Murray Street , Filey , by Market Operators and Management . |
| 7 | Informix Software Inc has indicated that it plans to set up a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary during 1993 , according to ComputerWorld Japan . |
| 8 | The Lord Chancellor originally intended that lenders should be self-regulating , but since publishing the white paper he has decided to set up a new Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners ' Board , with consumer representatives , to police lenders offering conveyancing services . |
| 9 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 10 | The commission is now going to set up a special working group to look at the problem . |
| 11 | The ministers and presidents also agreed to set up a European Monetary Institute under " stage two " to co-ordinate the 12 national monetary policies . |
| 12 | This series has run from last March , and by now we have hopefully supplied every bit of information the beginner requires to set up an efficient basic tropical tank ( throughout this feature we back-reference for your convenience if you missed earlier articles ) . |
| 13 | There was a quixotic suggestion that elected representatives north and south should meet to set up an alternative national parliament which would proceed to ‘ legislate ’ for the whole country . |
| 14 | On Dec. 11 agreement was reached to set up a single joint company to oversee the pipelines . |
| 15 | During the Dec. 23 visit of Capt. Blaise Compaoré , head of state of Burkina , agreement was reached to set up a permanent joint commission to promote co-operation and to open up diplomatic missions in the respective capitals as soon as possible . |
| 16 | We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain . |
| 17 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
| 18 | The Medium-Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) introduced in 1980 aimed to set out a medium-term financial framework for the monetary and fiscal policies consistent with the government 's overall strategy for reducing inflation and laying the foundations for sustainable economic growth . |
| 19 | In the first year of operation , NAB has begun to set up the essential third tier of its structure , namely study groups to examine and report upon specific subject areas and aspects of its operation . |
| 20 | This experiment uses a pair of old-type telephone handsets to set up a two-way analogue communication link over copper wires between two points which may be several hundred metres apart . |
| 21 | We will legislate to set up a new independent regulator to advise on issues affecting Post Office customers , and on the progressive introduction of competition . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH football legislators are giving serious consideration to scrapping relegation this season and agreeing to set up a 14-club Premier Division next term as a temporary measure before returning to a top tier of ten teams in 1994-95 . |
| 23 | Ante Markovic , the President of the Federal Executive Council ( federal Prime Minister ) and one of Yugoslavia 's most popular politicians , announced on May 25 that he was planning to set up a new political party based around his government team and with a programme of Western-style economic and political reforms , to contest multiparty elections to the Federal Assembly expected before the end of 1990 . |
| 24 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 25 | I know you and other parents with you are working to set up a special dyslexic unit in the Brighton area . |