Example sentences of "of set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 3 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association . |
| 7 | As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted . |
| 8 | 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 . |