Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose . |
| 2 | Then , influenced by his aunt Naomi Treen ( née Cubitt ) , a teacher at an elementary school practising Pestalozzian methods , he obtained in 1851 the post of master at Holy Trinity National School , Lambeth , where the progressive vicar , the Revd James Gillman , allowed him to pioneer revolutionary teaching methods in natural history and to set up a school museum . |
| 3 | For through sponsorship , ActionAid is working to improve farming methods and educational facilities , and to set up a community development programme so the villagers themselves learn how to identify problems and deal with them more effectively . |
| 4 | This Association has been instrumental in getting the APA to adopt guidelines on non-sexist language and practices , and to set up an office for Women 's Programmes . |
| 5 | to try and set up a scout group |
| 6 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 7 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 8 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll call and set up a visit a.s.a.p . |
| 10 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 11 | King Birendra appoints Lokendra Bahadur Chand as the new Prime Minister and sets up a commission to investigate allegations of police violence ; later the same day the police shoot dead as many as 150 demonstrators outside the Royal Palace in Kathmandu . |
| 12 | ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter . |
| 13 | I am beginning to doubt our sanity when he finds good ice and sets up the belay . |
| 14 | Sampling lists , that is , a record which identifies and sets out the population from which a sample is to be drawn , may not always completely enumerate the population from which the sample is to be drawn , the list may follow some peculiar sequence , sections of the population may be difficult to contact or refuse to co-operate , and so on . |
| 15 | He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents . |
| 16 | As a result , becoming an adult and setting up a household no longer mean the same thing . |
| 17 | Where labour and manufacturing facilities are often quite economical in overseas countries and setting up a manufacturing base saves transportation costs . |
| 18 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |
| 19 | That 's why we 've had things like the Dream Machine , and setting up a Chill Out room — so that people feel they 're involved in different things , yet connected to the band . |
| 20 | These included removing dozens of military officers and all 14 Supreme Court judges , approving radical judicial reforms , banning everyone cited for rights abuses from public office for ten years and setting up a compensation fund for victims of the war . |
| 21 | It adopted resolutions supporting the UN efforts and setting up a mission to monitor human rights in Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | The Whitehaven Youth Trust is renovating the old Whitehaven Market Hall and setting up a youth club . |
| 23 | Apart from the insults , and setting up a Formula I race-circuit in Jerez , Mr Pacheco 's record of social change is unremarkable . |
| 24 | President Ali Hassan Mwinyi reshuffled the Cabinet on March 6 , 1989 , creating two new ministries and setting up a planning commission in the Office of the President . |
| 25 | However a hand drill can be a useful extra tool for making holes in locations remote from a power supply , or simply for a one-off drilling job in the workshop for which it is not worth unpacking and setting up a power tool . |
| 26 | New Line has ploughed its profits from ‘ Nightmare on Elm Street ’ and ‘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ into buying other firms ' film libraries and setting up a distribution system . |
| 27 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 28 | And setting up the sound waves in the air at the other side . |
| 29 | This consists of anaesthetising the wound and setting up the method of repair or dressing of the wound . |
| 30 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |