Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 32 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 33 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 34 | A current is set up corresponding to the J = oE relationship . |
| 35 | Word processors are obviously going to incorporate many of the features found in page makeup or document assembly programs ; text will simply be passed to a parameter file called , say , REPORT and the document will automatically be set out according to the house style . |
| 36 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |
| 37 | Our engineer friends had collected crusty rolls from the dining room and , after a few drinks themselves , had set out to experiment with the sea-gulls ' capacity for whiskey . |
| 38 | To my knowledge there has been no research that has set out to study from the start how far a child 's attachment to a new family or carer is impeded or not or whether ‘ the child 's personality will be damaged ’ where a birth parent or relative keeps contact whilst the child is with psychological parents . |
| 39 | Frances Viner , who both directs and designs , has set out to look at the ‘ feminine ’ qualities of the play and its spiritual nature . |
| 40 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |
| 41 | NEC in Japan has adopted the corporate slogan ‘ C & C ’ — computers and communications — to indicate the basis on which it is setting out to compete across the world with IBM and many others . |
| 42 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 43 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 44 | She wished him goodnight , and set off to walk up the hill , her feet scarcely touching the ground . |
| 45 | Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ . |
| 46 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 47 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 48 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 49 | ‘ Fuck you lot , ’ Blagg had snarled at the officer in charge , and set out to march to the end of the world . |
| 50 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 51 | Building on the old Prussian foundations , the Reich set out to break into the world coal and steel markets . |
| 52 | Willis set out to wade through the rolling wash . |
| 53 | As an engineer , with a craftsperson 's interest in machines , he could not believe that they were the real villains of the piece and he set about looking for the deeper fault underlying their applications . |
| 54 | He set about struggling through the narrow window , one hand clutching the Champagne by its neck . |
| 55 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |