Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such policies would involve government intervention to provide better training and job information to reduce occupational immobility , and grants to firms to set up in areas of high unemployment to reduce regional imbalances .
2 Crops are harvested almost without sweat , boats set off on journeys with full sails , celebrations are carried off with style and decorum .
3 Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world .
4 Model conversations set out in tapescripts for audio cassettes for supplementary exercises on note taking from telephone conversations , and for revision .
5 Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun .
6 Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher .
7 For both discretionary and non-discretionary trusts , trust management expenses will be treated as set off against dividends in priority to other income .
8 The knocker boys usually set off in groups of three or four , targeting a particular area that is likely to throw up worthwhile items .
9 I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça .
10 An ombudsman and arbitration procedure be set up for disputes between names and Lloyd 's , and between names and agents
11 Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament .
12 The rate could decrease further this year as more than 100 local safety schemes are set up along roads in the region .
13 For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages .
14 It was set up with funds from leading venture capitalists Schroders , Apax and 3i .
15 Housing associations are non-statutory organisations set up by groups of individuals .
16 And with this would come a second liberation for women , the freedom to transcend the roles set up by figures like Annie Lennox and Janet Jackson , and to recover the right not to be strong , independent , immaculately in control .
17 The same author is of the opinion that it is much more likely that lateral shear is set up by differences in frictional drag on the wind between the sand of the dunes and the firm floors of the swales between .
18 Founded in 1972 , the National Schizophrenia Fellowship is a voluntary organisation set up by relatives of people with schizophrenia and allied disorders .
19 This apparatus , set up by physicists from Frascati , Milan and Turin , contains 134 tonnes of iron .
20 Life was a game like tennis , set up by men for men to win with powerful serves she would never be able to return .
21 That is something to do with Traidcraft that they erm they quite often work with groups who have been set up by carriages from Europe .
22 In this capacity , it is claimed , he was the main liaison officer with the secret anti-communist underground unit , P-26 , set up by right-wingers in the Swiss army and government .
23 The ‘ Schools tor Mothers ’ and ‘ Babies ’ Welcomes ' , set up by volunteers from 1908 onwards , set out to teach women to breast feed their children , so as to avoid the problem of contaminated milk and unhygienic feeding bottles ; to follow a strict feeding schedule ; not to allow dummies ; not to use inflammable flannelette clothing and not to permit the infant to sleep with its parents for fear of suffocating .
24 In September he was elected chairman of a new National Co-ordinating Commission of Solidarity , set up by representatives of the regional organizations which had recently come into being .
25 An incident room 's been set up by police in Aylesbury .
26 Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems .
27 Nine would be set up in areas to be announced shortly .
28 The Discovery Trails will be set up in parks in or near Birmingham , Bournemouth , Bristol , Cambridge , Cardiff , Edinburgh , Guildford , Glasgow , London , Maidstone , Manchester , Milton Keynes , Newcastle , Nottingham , Plymouth and York .
29 His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before .
30 All the crop management methods are set out for growers in a document compiled by JS with the help of experts from all over the world .
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