Example sentences of "set [adv] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | That course would doubtless prompt an application by the P.C.A. to set aside the subpoena on grounds of public interest immunity . |
| 2 | He crossed to the window to set wide the shutter on the last night of May , and heave the smokiness of his long closeted hours out of him in great , assuaging breaths . |
| 3 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 4 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 5 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |
| 6 | Once you have a bootable machine run FDISK to set up the partition(s) on your drive . |
| 7 | Julia cleared the glasses from round the room and prepared to set out the coffee on the drum table beside the chief armchair . |
| 8 | However , such a transaction is valid as between the company and the other party to it , and the court may on the application of the company or the other party to the transaction , affirm , sever , or set aside the transaction on such terms as the court sees fit ( s. 322A(7)CA ) . |
| 9 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 10 | Though the appeal should set out the grounds on which the appeal is based , appeals which fail to do so will not be regarded as inadmissible . |
| 11 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 12 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 13 | Deliberately confrontational , Bishop sets up the heist on the same night as the DJ contest . |
| 14 | The lecture provides a guide to the subject-matter and sets out the foundations on which the student must build . |
| 15 | The court action will of course give the defendant the opportunity to challenge the decision : Chapter 13 sets out the grounds on which challenge is allowed . |
| 16 | He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the computer system , installing new software and setting up the accounts on which LIFESPAN users will do most of their work . |
| 17 | He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the computer system , installing new software and setting up the accounts on which LIFESPAN users will do most of their work . |
| 18 | The Creative Weaver comprises a perforated base board , with sets of pegs for setting up the design on the board . |
| 19 | BP will also send out its two booklets setting out the options on application to Barry Halton , BP Exploration , 20 New Quay Road , Poole , Dorset . |
| 20 | Finally , and most important of all , the Central Committee published a draft ‘ Platform ’ on the national question in August 1989 setting out the basis on which it proposed to conduct the long-promised plenum , which was now to be held in September . |
| 21 | ( b ) Cross-appeal A respondent who wishes to contend : ( i ) that the decision of the court below should be varied either in any event or in the event of the appeal being allowed in whole or in part ; or ( ii ) that the decision of the court below should be affirmed but on different grounds ; or ( iii ) that the decision was wrong in whole or part must file and serve on all parties , within 14 days of receiving notice of appeal , a written notice setting out the grounds on which he relies . |
| 22 | The wretched towns of lower Aragon , detested by liberal soldiers , became strongholds of Carlism and it was the desolation of decaying artisan towns that set off the polemics on the effectiveness of ecclesiastical charity . |
| 23 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 24 | Here we meet a central theme : ca n't we demand that the doctor set out the principles on which he acts for all to see ? |