Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What people can do for themselves is to set up the equivalent of alarm calls : trio wires . |
| 3 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 4 | In March representatives of more than 1,000 private firms decided to set up the Association of Private and Privatised Business , which they have invited Mr Gaidar to run.Two other lobbies for reform have come into being , the Entrepreneurial Policy Initiative and the Inter-regional Trade and Banking Union . |
| 5 | In a rather haphazard fashion , and greatly encouraged by the British , Roosevelt finally agreed in 1942 to set up the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) under the command of Colonel William Donovan . |
| 6 | The purpose of these Heads of Agreement is to set out the degree of understanding between the parties for the purchase by [ ] Plc from the shareholders of ABC ( ‘ the Vendors ’ ) of the whole of the issued share capital of ABC including any shares issued pursuant to the share option scheme ( ‘ Adjusted Share Capital ’ ) . |
| 7 | The objectives of the policy are firstly to set out the attitude of the Wedgwood Group and , to elaborate on methods of dealing with alcohol problems in the workplace . |
| 8 | The policy speech comes less than a month before the likely date for ministers to set out the balance of subjects in the new curriculum for Scots children aged between five and 14 . |
| 9 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 10 | It would be wise to set out the nature of the problem , because it is not one problem but many . |
| 11 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 12 | A small group of Catenians from Redcar , Middlesbrough , Stockton and Yarm Circles formed a steering group to set about the task of bringing the Bishop 's idea into reality . |
| 13 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 14 | Third , we will set down the perspective of the Left within the Labour Party — the party that has very belatedly come to an awareness of the significance of constitutional politics and of the need for change . |
| 15 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 16 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 17 | This will set up the structure of a relation called EMPLOYEE which has three attributes . |
| 18 | If this wife made such an application the husband could set up the fact of desertion as an answer to the claim , but he could not set up clause 3 as a bar to the proceedings . |
| 19 | Designed to speed up the purchasing process , a ‘ logbook ’ would set out the condition of a home and any work done to it , as well as listing surveys . |
| 20 | There is no reason why the clause should not set out the detail of the procedure , such as time limits by which representations have to be made , and whether representations are to be exchanged simultaneously between the parties or served consecutively like pleadings . |
| 21 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 22 | Mr. Clements , a partner in Crossman Block , swore two affidavits , dated respectively 16 January and 6 February 1992 , which set out the case of their clients . |
| 23 | The tanks are directly connected to one another by a balance rope attached to the centre of each tank and passing over pulleys set about the centre of each plane . |
| 24 | This work behind them , Peach and Horne then set about the description of the North:West Highlands . |
| 25 | The Sheriff , Mr. Truelock , was called and with two of the men set about the work of destruction . |
| 26 | Having planted avenues and pleasure grounds around the house , he then set about the building of farms and the planting of woods . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Britain 's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a little flair . |
| 28 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 29 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
| 30 | Once his officers had been provided with a comprehensive register of the homages and other obligations of Gascon vassals , Edward could set about the task of governing his duchy with some confidence . |