Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Marriage was delayed until the young couple could afford to set up a home of their own . |
| 15 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 16 | He produced Polaroids that Kubrick approved off , and got the go-ahead to set up a kind of gigantic horizontal animation stand . |
| 17 | The DHAC originated in the abortive attempt to set up a branch of NICRA in Derry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As a result of the work of the Working Party , the Council decided to establish a Work Organisation Research Centre at the University of Aston Management Centre , and awarded a grant of £278,371 to set up a programme of research . |
| 21 | Enterprising window dressers dressed up in ski outfits to set up a display of sportswear in this store . |
| 22 | Chris Willsden took over the Bay Horse , Hurworth , near Darlington on Monday and hopes to set up a display of the pub 's heritage . |
| 23 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 24 | In privatising the Scottish Bus Group in the pattern we have chosen , we aim to set up a number of new , viable independent bus companies which will ensure healthy competition . |
| 25 | Another aim of the workshop is to set up a group of media trainers and professionals in eastern and southern Africa . |
| 26 | VIRGIN is teaming up with Blockbuster International to set up a chain of international mega-stores . |
| 27 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 28 | To interpret is to impoverish , to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow of ‘ meanings ’ ’ . |
| 29 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
| 30 | All regimental organisations and groups in the Stockton area are invited to a meeting in the town 's RAFA club tomorrow to discuss a proposal to set up a confederation of ex-service organisations . |