Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 2 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 3 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 5 | Her Majesty 's Government is also involved , for it is planning to set up the BritTrak Consortium which would reduce the rail network to a single , high profit track , ‘ running from the City to a decent little pub in Chobham ’ . |
| 6 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 7 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 8 | The first was over £1 million to set up the George Pitt-Rivers Chair of Archaeological Science in memory of the distinguished anthropologist , the late Captain George Pitt-Rivers . |
| 9 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 10 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 11 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 12 | Customs have set up the Dover Customs Yacht Team to deal with queries on yachts under temporary importation arrangements in an EC country on 31 December 1992 . |
| 13 | Thomas has had to endure three months of misery , the worst of his career , after the collapse of a £3 million move to Blackburn Rovers which would have set up the Crystal Palace midfielder for life . |
| 14 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 15 | Now Beverley and Peter have set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 16 | SED sets up the Osler Committee |
| 17 | The growth in fundholding poses problems for negotiations and the first moves in setting up the Grampian Association of Fundholding Practices are under way . |
| 18 | In 1611 he was consulted by Londoners setting up the Londonderry plantation , and showed positive interest in joining an oil-milling venture there . |
| 19 | His contributions included his work with Scripture Union , his long association with Cambridge University Mission , and his leading role with Andy Pierssene in setting up the Oxford Boys ' Club Trust . |
| 20 | A second special law , to remedy the defects of the first , was passed in 1984 ( no. 798 , 29 November ) , setting up the Consorzio Venezia Nuova to study and deal with problems connected with the physical protection of Venice . |
| 21 | The following text takes you step-by-step through setting up the LSTRAIN process ; to set up further processes , just follow the same instructions , substituting the name of the new process for LSTRAIN . |
| 22 | The process was assisted in the North by the self-exclusion of Britain from internal Ulster affairs by setting up the Stormont parliament which survived from 1922 to 1972 . |
| 23 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 24 | The official figures were revealed yesterday in the bill setting out the NHS proposals and the legislative changes for the community care white paper proposals , published last week . |
| 25 | The technical training department set up the NEBOSH course , which is seen as a logical progression building from the broad base of safety representatives training . |
| 26 | Josephine Butler , together with Stead and Henry Wilson , set up the London Committee for Suppressing the Traffic in British Girls . |
| 27 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
| 28 | Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists . |
| 29 | We appointed a superb chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , and set up the Woolf commitee on prison reform , which has produced an excellent report . |
| 30 | The BUF set up the January Club , a social and intellectual front whose members did not have to be Fascist and who were addressed by Joyce in his calmer tones . |