Example sentences of "[noun pl] to set [adv] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet media linked the concern of the conference delegates over international tension in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to ostensible American plans to set up a new military alliance in the Red Sea area . |
| 2 | Following his failure to grab a slice of Dan-Air , he announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to set up a small European airline if Virgin can get permission to fly from Heathrow to Brussels , Paris and Maastricht . |
| 3 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |
| 4 | The Labour leader , John Smith , is believed to have told the Scottish leadership not to support any efforts to set up a Scottish parliamentary council and Mr Clarke 's proposals are intended to maintain Lib Dem support for the convention . |
| 5 | This , as has been said , is particularly true of the moves to set up an unaccountable Central Bank . |
| 6 | AEA Technology and Amersham International plc have joined forces to set up a new international environmental management business . |
| 7 | The motive for Nepomuk 's canonisation appears to have been an attempt by the Jesuits to set up an alternative national hero to the heretical Hus . |