Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 2 | Set forth in 1823 by President James Monroe , the doctrine 's original thrust was designed to keep the Western Hemisphere free from European interference . |
| 3 | Set up in 1979 under the chairmanship of Anthony Ramp ton , its original brief was primarily concerned with the causes of ethnic minority , and especially ‘ West Indian ’ , ‘ underachievement ’ . |
| 4 | The Ozone Trends Panel , a working party of scientists set up in 1986 by NASA , has calculated a three per cent depletion in stratospheric ozone on a global level since 1969 . |
| 5 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 6 | Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues . |
| 7 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 8 | Frequently the analyst does not set out with one of these specific aims in mind , but just applies systems thinking to generate ideas , making use of these ideas in whatever way proves to be of value . |
| 9 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 10 | Set up by one of Britain 's top tennis players , Sarah Loosemore , it 's out to redress a sporting imbalance . |
| 11 | Wolfenden was commissioned not by the state but by the Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) , which had been set up in 1935 as a co-ordinating body for the many voluntary associations involved in the running of sport . |
| 12 | The Commission , which was set up in 1991 after a series of miscarriage of justice cases culminating in the release of the Birmingham Six after 16 years in prison , reported today . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 14 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 15 | Cooperative was set up in 1989 by old hands from Tandem Computers Inc , including VP of research Kim Worsencroft and CEO Dennis McEvoy , so Ellipse is inherently resilient to errors and failures . |
| 16 | Interactive Home Systems ( IHS ) was set up in 1989 in Redmond , Washington , with the aim of selling high quality visual information to homes , schools , public institutions and businesses , drawing on a constantly expanding visual information library which includes not only art but also history , science , travel , current affairs and popular culture . |
| 17 | The first film commission in Britain was set up in 1989 in Liverpool , in response to Mersey Television 's need for locations around that city , as they developed drama programmes from their base in Brookside . |
| 18 | A similar one was set up in 1779 in Haute Guienne ; and in 1787 , in the last desperate efforts to save the old régime in its death agony , no fewer than nineteen were established in généralités throughout the country . |
| 19 | It was set up in 1981 by the British water industry in response to the United Nations ' Water Decade of 1981 to 1990 . |
| 20 | A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements . |
| 21 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 22 | The Foyle Fisheries Commission is a cross-border statutory body which was set up in 1952 under parallel legislation introduced in Northern Ireland and the Republic . |
| 23 | The School 's forerunner , the Department of Physical Education , was set up in 1939 in response to concern about the health and fitness of the nation , with Mr A.D. Munrow as its Director and one other member of staff , Mr Max Madders . |
| 24 | Now funded by the Department of National Heritage , the Conservation Unit was set up in 1987 as part of the Museums and Galleries Commission to act as a national focus for raising conservation standards . |
| 25 | In one country at least — the Cameroon — a research institute , The Institute for the Reform of Primary Education at Buea , was set up in 1974 with reasonable resources in terms of personnel ( a team of twelve to fifteen nationals and experts has been employed ) , adequate funding jointly from Government and UNESCO/UNDP , and in its initial stages a sensible time scale to work to . |
| 26 | Hire Association Europe ( HAE ) was set up in 1974 as a trade association for the hire industry . |
| 27 | Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax . |
| 28 | This court was set up in 1971 by the Courts Act . |
| 29 | The state of Israel itself was set up in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people . |
| 30 | Year of foundation : 1961 , replacing the Organization for European Economic Co-operation ( OEEC ) which had been set up in 1948 in connection with the Marshall Plan . |