Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 2 | It was a stupid thing , he thought , three gold baubles on springs that set up a continual motion , banging one against the other , and he kept it on his desk only to please her . |
| 3 | Time stood still and suddenly there was only one focus — this mounting , spiralling pressure that set off a high-pitched singing inside her head and made breathing hazardous . |
| 4 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 5 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 6 | No no no no you basically the company is pulled out of the ordinary high street travel business and set up a new concept in business travel . |
| 7 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 8 | Swansea were packed with six of the current Welsh side and set up a mouthwatering revenge mission for the national side on November 21 . |
| 9 | It abolished the distinction between elementary and higher education , and set up a unified system of free , compulsory schooling from the age of 5 to 15 ( to be raised when practicable to 16 ) . |
| 10 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 11 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 12 | Noell died a rich but not fabulously wealthy man , having already settled much of his property and set up a substantial charity in his native town . |
| 13 | Tries by Allan Bateman and Colin Laity brought the home team back into the hunt and set up a stirring finale to the heavyweight contest . |
| 14 | A permanent WEU group would set up military units answerable to the WEU , plan possible deployments , and set up a European armaments agency . |
| 15 | Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool . |
| 16 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 17 | Collaborative research and cross-licensing of patents : for sound reasons — high fixed costs , economies of scale , and risk-sharing — firms may pool research and development ( R&D ) resources and set up a common R&D agency . |
| 18 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 19 | And in 9 months , local people raised £600,000 and set up a charitable trust to run the hospital . |
| 20 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 21 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 22 | Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly … |
| 23 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 24 | Other statutes created new offences , amended penalties , re-organized the structure of the courts , re-classified the types of offence tried in them , defined the powers of the police , and set up an independent prosecution service . |
| 25 | In 1981 the government authorised the project in principle and set up the Mediterranean-Dead Sea Company , which delivered a detailed study on engineering , economic and environmental aspects of the whole hydroelectric scheme last year . |
| 26 | Scott extended the scope of prisoners ' employment , established the first open prison camp , and set up the Imperial Training School for prison officers at Wakefield , a pioneer effort in public-service training . |
| 27 | Police in Florida believe Magaly Carr , 29 , telephoned father-of-three Mr Bates and set up the fateful meeting where her boyfriend carried out the killing . |
| 28 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 29 | It forbade a number of unfair practices used by employers to block union development , and set up the National Labor Board to sort out problems and act as " umpire " between labour and management . |
| 30 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |