Example sentences of "set [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
| 2 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 3 | I shall set aside a part of each day to think about you . ’ |
| 4 | Holidaymakers should set aside a day for the glass-bottomed boat trips to Walt Disney World in the lost city of Orlando , where the spires of Cinderella 's Castle rise majestically above the waves . |
| 5 | However , the court can also still remit or set aside an arbitration award , under s22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , and this continues to be a relatively frequently exercised right . |
| 6 | Smoking a cigarette will not normally set off a smoke alarm . |
| 7 | The government , claiming that granting the pilots ' wage demand would set off a wage explosion and damage the economy , expressed its support for the airlines and took unprecedented steps to break the strike . |
| 8 | These areas of flexibility need to be defined very carefully and the possible options spelled out as far as possible , for in a tightly knit plan a sudden deviation at one point can set off a chain reaction of confusion throughout the plan . |
| 9 | Humiliating and unrealistic conditions should set off an alarm in the coalition 's collective head : they carry echoes from 1919 of Versailles , the treaty that ended ‘ the war to end all wars ’ and brought Europe , and the world , a new era of instability . |
| 10 | Thus the electrons and positrons will set up a kind of sonic boom , or shock wave , in the electromagnetic field . |
| 11 | He 's an expert on the buildings history and if the building is bought up and say , converted to offices , would like one or 2 rooms put by so he can set up a museum of psychiatry . |
| 12 | We could set up a Follets here . |
| 13 | Councillor Seamus Rogers of the Workers Party felt that the County Council should set up a sub-committee to look into the issue , while Councillor Brian Gallagher said they should get experts down to the area quickly to issue a ‘ statement that this will not be detrimental in the long term ’ . |
| 14 | You also have , I 'm gon na set up a sub-committee called the Form sub-committee to meet after Christmas er , to review this work , once it 's been done and decide what to do with the , all the other forms that are n't versions . |
| 15 | And for regular savings we can easily set up a standing order . |
| 16 | A FATHER whose son was killed in a road accident has helped set up a support network in the North West for the families of other victims . |
| 17 | ‘ They might not set up a road block , ’ said Jean , biting her lip . |
| 18 | If my right hon. Friend succeeds in gaining enough support for his efforts , the European Community will set up a framework of support and it will be up to individual countries to decide , within that framework , how they wish to use the funds . |
| 19 | The Labour government will set up a Defence Diversification Agency to assist workers , communities and companies affected by change . |
| 20 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 21 | Mr Patten even mused that the Conservative Party might set up a think-tank on the lines of Germany 's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung , the research arm of the governing Christian Democrats . |
| 22 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 23 | The governing body must set up a selection panel and the post of headteacher or deputy headteacher has to be advertised nationally . |
| 24 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 25 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 26 | Remember to reduce speed on downhill stretches and to watch in the mirror for traffic which may be about to overtake , and which could therefore set up a swing . |
| 27 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 28 | As Lesley Bell , director of Joint Initiative for Community Care , says : ‘ It is absolutely crazy that anyone can set up a home care agency with no form of regulation whatsoever . |
| 29 | Almost anyone can set up a telephone information service . |
| 30 | Anyone who can train a suitable bird can set up a falconry centre , but the birds themselves are expensive to buy and to maintain , so it 's not a hobby to be undertaken lightly . |