Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] a [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 | They left Lawton with Grant to guard the bridge area , and set about a systematic search of the superstructure . |
23 | In essence , the Lady of the Hearth represents the way in which we choose and set out a bounded space in which to live , the fire we light at its centre , and the way we use the heat which the fire provides . |
24 | The MBA do a superlative job maintaining these simple buildings , and set out a clear set of guidelines for their useage . |
25 | Cuban refugees , trained by the Americans , were to invade the island and set off a spontaneous rising of the Cuban people against Castro . |