Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two ways in which company law set about tackling the problem of legitimacy of corporate managerial power which was thus posed . |
| 2 | The new council set up to reform the judiciary fell under the control of the Supreme Court , which was generally seen as being heavily under the influence of Cristiani 's right-wing ruling National Republic Alliance ( Arena ) . |
| 3 | The ‘ substantial case ’ for compensation was underlined yesterday by the local authority co-ordinating committee set up to represent the interest of councils which lost money . |
| 4 | The players will form part of a six man committee set up to oversee the Subscription Scheme which chairman Wallace Mercer hopes will entice fans to help pay for the renovations . |
| 5 | Lord Justice Higgins was appointed as a county court judge in 1971 and in 1975 he became a member of a special committee set up to review the Emergency Provisions Act . |
| 6 | The 1947 Act set out to remedy the deficiencies . |
| 7 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 8 | The act set out to reduce the powers of the unions . |
| 9 | A special steering group set up to examine the idea has chosen Citigen , a joint venture between British Gas and two French energy management companies , from six tenders for the system . |
| 10 | And an action group set up to fight the route looks set to demand a meeting with Mr Hunt 's successor , John Redwood . |
| 11 | Welford 's Cambridge group set out to identify the nature of the work for which the older worker was best suited and the most suitable methods of retraining those whose skills had become redundant as the result of modifications in the industrial process ( Welford 1951 ) . |
| 12 | The Farm Animal Welfare Council , an independent body set up to advise the Ministry of Agriculture , suggested that 600 square centimetres should be adopted as a minimum allowance in Europe . |
| 13 | Across the table sat the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ) , a Beijing front organisation set up to give the SEF a liaison partner . |
| 14 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 15 | A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the extent of the responsibility of the security service ( StB ) for , and the political background to , the violent police action against student demonstrators on Nov. 17 , 1989 [ see p. 37026 ] published its report on May 9 . |
| 16 | Some ten to fifteen years later the French eyewitness accounts were to be corroborated by their erstwhile enemies at the court of enquiry set up to determine the extent and nature of the pillage by the Prussian troops involved in the pursuit . |
| 17 | In one area of the central fruit-growing region , north-east of Santiago , 600 seasonal workers have joined a new union set up to address the needs of the seasonal labourers and their families and to negotiate with employers . |
| 18 | Hume 's Treatise set out to lay the foundations for ‘ a complete system of the sciences ’ relying ultimately only on ‘ experience and observation ’ — an ambition which empiricists all share . |
| 19 | The capitalist class are concentrated and centred in the government of this country today to an extent they never were before ; they are using the House of Commons for the purpose of defeating the working class organisations of this country , and the cooperative movement realised when the government set out to challenge the N.U.R . |
| 20 | Of the Twelve , the then West Germany was the most crucially affected , and its government set about creating the conditions for the unification of the two Germanies . |
| 21 | The chip set continuously digitises the signal as it flows in at 25 frames per second ( or 30 frames per second if it is NTSC ) and passes the data to another chip set ( in reality , a complete microprocessor in itself ) which enables the digitised signal to be manipulated . |
| 22 | US$140,000,000 already pledged by the International Development Association towards a social fund set up to cushion the impact of economic reforms [ see p. 38209 ] was to be topped up to US$500,000,000 . |
| 23 | In 1985 the Bank set about reorganizing the market for government debt . |
| 24 | Sue Telfer , adviser to the neighbourhood schemes , told those present at the Kingsley Centre on Thursday evening that community care set out to meet the needs of an area which were not already being covered by other organisations . |
| 25 | This is despite the near completion of a £70,000 five year project set up to save the paths . |
| 26 | This report is concerned with an NFER project set up to study the feasibility of devising tests in mathematics at several levels of difficulty , for lower attaining pupils aged 14 to 16 years . |
| 27 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
| 28 | He even had a ready made foundation for the new bank — the Equivalent Company set up to administer the money and debentures paid to Scotland as a compensation for some pre-Union perfidy on the part on the English . |
| 29 | There is another brown-field alternative that has not been investigated : to build a new RIBA administrative building on a new site and sell 66 Portland place to the trust set up to operate the architecture centre and the library . |
| 30 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |