Example sentences of "set [adv] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 2 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |
| 3 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 4 | Perhaps one method would be to allow small firms to set aside a percentage of profits into a tax free investment vehicle on the understanding that it is to be used for reinvestment within 5 — 10 years . |
| 5 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 6 | You will need to set aside a bit of time to review the events of the last eight weeks . |
| 7 | It includes a commitment to create five new national parks by 1996 , and to set aside a total of 12 per cent of the country 's territory as " protected areas " for wildlife . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not find it easy , ’ said Abbot Radulfus , with a distinct chill in his voice , ‘ to set aside the issue of murder . |
| 9 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 10 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 11 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 12 | Admittedly , in cases covered by section 17 , the capacity of the Court of Appeal to set aside an order of the House of Lords is invested by clear statutory implication . |
| 13 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 14 | In July last year he announced that ‘ we are prepared to set straight the brains of hundreds ’ in order to maintain stability . |
| 15 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 16 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 17 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 18 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 19 | Since replacing the former prime minister , Bob Hawke , in an inter-party challenge 14 months ago , Mr Keating has pledged to set up a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic , with an Australian head of state , by 2001 . |
| 20 | In order to evaluate the most effective ways of meeting the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers , we decided to set up a variety of pilot projects — these will be discussed by Ian Baillie in his talk on the Strathclyde development Fund . |
| 21 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 22 | All the same it is useful here to set up a paradigm of the profitability calculation against which to assess the prospects for investment planning , while accepting that there is considerable scope for variation in the actual calculations performed by particular enterprises . |
| 23 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 24 | Many of the owners had once been renters , thus , suggesting a pattern where young migrants , who can not afford land or property rent until they have sufficient savings to set up a home of their own . |
| 25 | Marriage was delayed until the young couple could afford to set up a home of their own . |
| 26 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 27 | He produced Polaroids that Kubrick approved off , and got the go-ahead to set up a kind of gigantic horizontal animation stand . |
| 28 | The DHAC originated in the abortive attempt to set up a branch of NICRA in Derry . |
| 29 | Windsor has already tried to set up a team of his own in F1 and knows the problems involved , not least of which is the mega money needed to gain a foothold , never mind putting together the technical talent needed to build his own car . |
| 30 | The £1 million case , and one which cost an ordinary couple £60,000 , prompted the President of the High Court 's Family Division , Mr Justice Stephen Brown , to set up a team of judges and lawyers to examine fees . |