Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to set [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
2 | The Comintern , completely disregarding their past policy , called upon " all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the united front of struggle with the social democratic workers through the medium of the social democratic parties " . |
3 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
4 | It is convenient at this stage to set out the relevant parts of section 7 , as amended by section 65(4) of and Schedule 12 to the Criminal Law Act 1977 : |
5 | The climate is good , not too hot but with brilliant sunshine to set off the vivid colouring and give shade and modelling to the arcaded treatment of façades . |
6 | In the UK , the most notable defection from an international company to set up an independent search business has been that by David Norman and Miles Broadbent , who were both previous Mds of Russell Reynolds in London , and who took with them other colleagues to found Norman Broadbent . |
7 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
8 | Discontent over the operation of the new service was one of the factors that led the Labour government to set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service in 1976 . |
9 | The context was an action in the Norwegian court to set aside a retrospective tax assessment which had been raised by the Norwegian tax authorities against the estate of a deceased taxpayer who , it was alleged , was the beneficial owner of the assets which he had not declared for tax purposes . |
10 | A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) . |
11 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
12 | Most notable by its absence was any commitment to set up an environmental protection agency — the centrepiece of the environmental section of the Conservative Party election manifesto . |
13 | Simultaneously a dozen Greek newspapers were being financed by British money , which was also used in the same year to set up a pro-British magazine in Japan . |
14 | 1986 No. 1925 ) the court has a wide discretion to set aside a statutory demand on an application by the debtor . |
15 | The court has a wide discretion to set aside a statutory demand . |
16 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
17 | On June 27 the liberal opposition failed to win sufficient support to set up a parliamentary inquiry . |