Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , export manager at Courtaulds Coatings in New Zealand , met fellow winner , manager of the trade and retail paint division at Courtaulds International ( Brazil ) , in Hobart when the yachts set off on February 13 . |
| 2 | They set off in November 1923 and it took a year to set up the expedition . |
| 3 | Eastern regional sales centre is one of seven centres set up in July this year following Scottish Amicable 's decision to separate the Independent Financial Advisor ( IFA ) and Appointed Representative ( AR ) distribution channels . |
| 4 | The Bundeswehrkommando Ost ( set up in October 1990 to supervise the merging of the two German armed forces — see p. 37761 ) ceased operations on July 1 , 1991 . |
| 5 | The most recent review of quotas set up in March 1987 failed to conclude its review , and as a result the IMF board of governors requested fresh proposals for new quotas by April 1989 ; until that review the level of Fund quotas remained unchanged at SDR89.99 billion . |
| 6 | However , he unexpectedly declared on June 16 that the founding of a Russian CP " should not be delayed " , his remarks being addressed to members of the CPSU Russian buro ( set up in December 1989 and chaired by him — see p. 37128 ) , representatives of regional party organizations in Russia , and the organizing committee of the forthcoming conference . |
| 7 | Despite the rigging admissions and in disregard of a call from the round table discussions ( set up in December 1989 — see p. 37108 ) , the Council of State decided on Feb. 14 that it would not annul the election results for fear of the " far reaching effects " of such a move . |
| 8 | ‘ We helped 500 businesses set up in Teesside last year . |
| 9 | The various rules relating to tender offers set out in SAR 4 are listed below . |
| 10 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |
| 11 | If the information obtained from the Policyholder and the Doctor suggests there may be non-disclosure , the instructions set out in SCI 43 ( General ) should be fully complied with . |
| 12 | An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 . |
| 13 | But this ignores the effect of new accounting rules set out in SSAP 24 , which require companies to spread a surplus over a number of years . |
| 14 | A parliamentary commission of inquiry into arms sales to Iran was set up on Sept. 27 and its report , presented on April 2 , 1990 ( without SPÖ agreement ) , contained serious criticism of senior politicians and of the Voest-Alpine group 's decision to manufacture howitzers and other weapons . |
| 15 | A new 31-member " central committee for the comprehensive management of public security " , headed by politburo standing committee member Qiao Shi , was set up on March 22 to liaise with the party central committee and the State Council in supervising work to improve public order and social stability . |
| 16 | This committee was set up on May 18-19 , consisting of Marcovic , Kadijevic and Gracanin as well as the two Vice-Presidents of the Federal Executive Council , Aleksandar Mitrovic and Zivko Pregl , the Justice and Administration Secretary Vlado Kambovski , and the Secretary-General of the government , Zoran Miskovic . |
| 17 | A working group was set up on July 19 to examine trade aspects of domestically prohibited goods and hazardous substances ( for the issue of trade in toxic and hazardous wastes see pp. 36788-89 ) ; a progress report from this working group was noted by the Dec. 4-5 session of the contracting parties . |
| 18 | The first offshore banking unit was set up on Aug. 25 by Barclays Bank of Mauritius ; offshore licences were also approved for the Bank of Baroda and Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild , and later for S. B. International ( a joint Mauritian-Indian venture ) , the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. and Banque Nationale de Paris . |
| 19 | It is a home from home for Sue Wilson , who has probably spent as many nights at the camp since it was set up on January 18 as she has at home . |
| 20 | The commission had been set up on June 4 to examine the implementation of the May 28 Sejm resolution on the exposure of former agents [ see p. 38972 ; the resolution had in fact originally called for exposures by June 6 , not June 20 as stated on that page ] . |
| 21 | A Higher Economic Council for Instituting Market Relations was set up on June 23 . |
| 22 | A parliamentary commission was set up on Nov. 13 to establish whether the police had played a role in the recent violence , which continued into the following week in the departments of Jinotega and Estelí where 15 people were killed . |
| 23 | The privately funded Foundation for Exchange Across the Taiwan Strait was set up on Nov. 21 as the " only important " channel entrusted by the Mainland Affairs Council with the handling of civilian affairs . |
| 24 | The news agency TASS reported that a commission had been set up under Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulkhashim Mutalov , to investigate the disturbances . |
| 25 | Some programmes , set up by North American and international development agencies in order to alleviate the population pressure on food and thus reduce poverty , were aimed at direct population control rather than giving the woman the right and freedom to control her own fertility . |
| 26 | Set up by WSR Managing Director Mark Smith and Association Chairman John Pearce as a thank you gesture to Beamish Museum and the WSR 's workers involved in the rally , the trip by ‘ Locomotion ’ was a fitting end to a summer of celebrations on the WSR following the Taunton 150 events of last month . |
| 27 | In 1987 , a pilot reed-bed system doused with domestic waste was set up by Fife Regional Council at Torry Bay on land reclaimed from the Firth of Forth . |
| 28 | Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin , meeting on March 23 in the Georgian town of Kazbegi , agreed to set up by April 10 a joint Georgian-Russian militia detachment to police Georgia 's troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 29 | The event has been set up by Darlington Environmental Watch who want the representatives of the three major parties to answer hard-hitting questions about their green plans for the town . |
| 30 | In the UK , Barclays Computer Operations , Knutsford , Cheshire , which was set up in January 1991 by Barclays Bank Plc to provide in-house facilities management , is stepping out into the commercial marketplace with its own offerings — OPM ( Operator Presentation Manager ) , and DataPlace . |