Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique that we have introduced for light aircraft groups will enable you to set up a reasonably accurate performance on most types in those groups , requiring the minimum of adjustment on individual aircraft . |
| 2 | His first tasks were to erect fortifications , to intrigue to prevent the Arabs from uniting to expel the intruder , and to use the Jews to set up a highly efficient intelligence network . |
| 3 | However , the division into high and low heads as general types is probably the most basic that can be made , and it would be pointless to set up a more elaborate system to represent differences if these differences were not recognised by most English speakers . |
| 4 | The voice recordings were shipped to London where MI6 had to set up a totally new department of 250 specially recruited Russian-speaking experts to slowly work their way through the material . |
| 5 | If we are to control all variables , we have to set up a totally artificial situation . |
| 6 | What Blake did was to set up a very clever cover story which would pre-empt any subsequent accusations that he was in touch with the Russians . |
| 7 | With the blessing of both Mr Walesa and senior Catholic churchmen , he is already working to set up an avowedly Christian party . |
| 8 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 9 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 10 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 11 | To disturb the resting place of any person is regarded as defiling the dead and fortunately , not too many cases are recorded , but one type of archaeological exploration can quite accidentally set off a very volatile and dangerous sequence of events that , on this occasion , cost a man his life and left a whole community in a traumatic turmoil . |
| 12 | Colour and foliage can set off the most ordinary-looking house ‘ whereas a poorly kept garden with no trees or shrubs seems to place a dead hand on the house itself . |
| 13 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 14 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 15 | Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness . |
| 16 | If the manager collects the money , the artist may insist the manager sets up a completely separate bank account . |
| 17 | This has led to me setting up a very enthusiastic and committed core group which has given itself five years to complete the assessment and documentation needs to cover the Region . |
| 18 | There are ways of plotting the profile of the gore , and the mathematically minded will no doubt enjoy a computer exercise of setting up the progressively diminishing diameters , and the calculation of gore width at 10% stages from base to apex . |
| 19 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 20 | In his inaugural speech as president , Nyerere announced that he was setting up an entirely new ministry , that of National Culture and Youth . |
| 21 | Since the question turns on the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , the problem is therefore one of statutory interpretation and it will be helpful to start by setting out the immediately relevant provisions of the Act : |
| 22 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 23 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 24 | Of a sudden Hector set up an extraordinarily excited yapping . |
| 25 | Bertha Johnson was on the committees that organized a series of lectures for ladies from 1874 , set up the more ambitious Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford ( AEW ) in 1878 , and founded the Anglican hostel , Lady Margaret Hall , which opened , together with the undenominational Somerville Hall , in 1879 . |
| 26 | Act … set out an entirely new regime for new lettings where they involved absentee landlords . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern . |