Example sentences of "[v-ing] to set [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 2 | Robinson also cited the work of the commission 's judicial task force in recommending and helping to set up a scientific organization inside the Federal Judicial Center that will provide guidance for judges on the question of interpreting scientific evidence in court ( see page 481 ) . |
| 3 | Jack Boyle ( Brian Devlin ) showed very good comic timing , helping to set up the comic aspect of the play . |
| 4 | Billy Neilson , a prominent Wear Valley councillor until last May 's Christopherian coup , was approached the other day by someone seeking to set up a small business in Sunderland . |
| 5 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 6 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 7 | John Tompkins is wishing to set up an open canoe group for advanced paddlers . |
| 8 | Peter Sands believes in the National Health Service , but he 's leaving to set up a private practice ; one of 13 dentists in Abingdon . |
| 9 | CLEVELAND PARK is hoping to set up a two-dog match between the Middlesbrough track 's current top dog , Goulane Peggy , and exciting newcomer I 'm Sloppy . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm hoping to set up a special league . |
| 11 | Xanana Gusmao , a former resistance leader in East Timor , was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court for , among several charges , trying to set up a separate state . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The new government is trying to set up a new country but they have no natural resources and they are desperately short of everything . |
| 13 | The Assembly also approved the leadership purge of June and July , when six high-ranking officials in the ruling Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) had been arrested for trying to set up a new party [ see also pp. 37598-99 ] . |
| 14 | If the father is trying to instil good table manners while the mother is arguing , ‘ What does it matter , so long as she eats ? ’ , or the mother is trying to set up a sensible bedtime routine while father says ‘ Another half-hour wo n't hurt ’ , mealtimes and bedtimes will soon turn into problem areas . |
| 15 | We tend to think that it is a modern problem , trying to set up the best lifestyle so that the need for personal commitment to the home is balanced with other social and career activities . |
| 16 | The U D M is planning to set up a giant recycling plant here to provide employment for an area badly hit by pit closures . |
| 17 | France is planning to set up a national system for recovering and recycling packaging waste similar to that being implemented in Germany [ see ED 49/50 ; 56 ] . |
| 18 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |