Example sentences of "of set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 He did not win : the executive in charge of setting up the European offices was the dynamic ex-sheriff of Caribou , Idaho , named William Swift Daliba , who could toss a silver dollar in the air and plug it with his six-gun .
32 We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit .
33 It is the availability of the fibre optic network that helps MBS address the problem of setting up the interactive links between the service itself and its users .
34 At the time of setting up the main problems facing UK carpet manufacturers were the depressed state of the economy and the fact that imports of carpets were taking an increasing share of a diminishing market .
35 ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association .
36 As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted .
37 The main aim isto explore the feasibility of setting up an integrated physical and community infrastructure data base .
38 And so we , we are in the process of setting up an online database computerized which would be accessible by not just branches , but individual erm health and safety reps for a fairly minimal affiliation which will tap into the latest information which will be updated er every three months and we feel that again that 's something in conjunction with , clearly with the unions in the city something that a trades council should be doing , something that raises our profile , explains to people what trade councils , what the trade union movement is all about and does it effectively using modern techniques and modern methods .
39 This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform .
40 ‘ I have no intention of wiping out the WPBSA or of setting up an alternative governing body , ’ Hearn said .
41 The feeling of disquiet about the practices and methods of some headhunting firms in terms of ethics , reliability , quality of work and total professionalism is such that the possibility of setting up an official self-regulatory association ought to be investigated .
42 At the same time , Denyer had the idea of setting up an accompanying exhibition : it seemed an obvious extension of the book .
43 As a result of a request from the project to a local College of Further Education for someone to provide an ‘ O ’ level class for mothers involved in a pre-school play-group , discussions took place about the possibility of setting up an educational project to complement and support the work of the community action project .
44 Then , realizing the cost and risk of setting up an American operation only for his own films , he backtracked and arranged for US to handle his company 's big-budget pictures .
45 If place is to be defined in terms of co-ordinates , the assumption that no particular can be in two places at once presupposes the ( logical ) possibility of a unique designation by means of co-ordinates of every single position in space , i.e. the possibility , in principle , of setting up an all-embracing co-ordinate system ; making it possible to differentiate unambiguously every point in space from any other from a given origin .
46 There 's talk of setting up an advisory board for him to consult .
47 Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it .
48 We shall postpone until Chapter 3 the task of setting out the full array of intensional patterns which are expressed in the syntactic structures involving English adjectives .
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