Example sentences of "and [verb] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 2 | Robinson also cited the work of the commission 's judicial task force in recommending and helping to set up a scientific organization inside the Federal Judicial Center that will provide guidance for judges on the question of interpreting scientific evidence in court ( see page 481 ) . |
| 3 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 4 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 5 | The Sports Council has also played an active role in efforts to resolve problems in access to rivers and has set up a liaison group to discuss access agreements for rivers between all interested and affected parties , including of course , canoeists . |
| 6 | Recently , Mike Lester has recognized the need to co-ordinate and develop the catering side of the operations , and has set up a small Pub Catering Department under the Estates division . |
| 7 | It has also increased marketing activities into the growing Far Eastern markets of China , Singapore and Taiwan , and has set up a new subsidiary in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | Compaq is also expected to announce details of its first comprehensive mail-order campaign this week — it is preparing a catalogue in the US that will offer Compaq computers , monitors and printers , as well as other companies ' software and peripherals , and has set up a telephone bank at its Houston campus to handle incoming calls on a toll-free telephone number , a move that will put Compaq into direct competition with fellow Texan , Austin-based Dell Computer Corp . |
| 9 | While the Catholic Church does its best and has set up a number of camps and refuges , particularly in San Salvador , these can not meet the demand and are very overcrowded : their inadequate sanitation and water facilities create enormous health hazards . |
| 10 | China has solved the problem of disposing of solid radioactive waste and has set up a complete purifying system for radioactive liquid and gaseous waste , according to participants in a seminar on nuclear science in Beijing . |
| 11 | She teaches literacy , numeracy and music to a variety of patients from the centre , and has set up a small bible group with the chaplain . |
| 12 | Brunner Mond says it will help those affected find alternative employment , and has set up a team specially to help people relocate . |
| 13 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 14 | The government has accepted Tomlinson 's recommendation for investment in premises and has set up an initiative zone to encourage new ideas . |
| 15 | Hence , it was natural to become preoccupied with climate and to try to set up a geomorphological scheme in which climate dominated erosion and erosion dominated structure and lithology , so that every climatic zone had its characteristic landforms . |
| 16 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 17 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 18 | These include experiments in programme exchange and plans to set up a regional TV network in time for the 1992 Caribbean Festival of Arts . |
| 19 | Julia cleared the glasses from round the room and prepared to set out the coffee on the drum table beside the chief armchair . |
| 20 | But this charge was later dropped when Kedie 's brother confirmed it was a loan to pay for outstanding bills and to help set up a fish and chip shop in Eastbourne . |
| 21 | They have been exacerbated by rumours that ethnic Germans from Soviet Asia are to be moved into the Kaliningrad region and allowed to set up an autonomous republic there . |
| 22 | He told Waite he had contact with Islamic Jihad and offered to set up a meeting . |
| 23 | Chris Willsden took over the Bay Horse , Hurworth , near Darlington on Monday and hopes to set up a display of the pub 's heritage . |
| 24 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 25 | At the time , I was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of the involvement of one of the major neurotransmitters , acetylcholine , in memory formation , and had set up a simple , fast assay for the brain 's acetylcholine receptor ( called the muscarinic receptor , to distinguish it from other types of acetylcholine receptor ) . |
| 26 | He had come from out of town with a fortune , was known to have been a vociferous Bund supporter before the war and had set up a chain of more or less above-board casinos in the districts where gambling was more or less legal . |
| 27 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 28 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 29 | The threat from Catholics was constantly raised by him , for example , when he linked the failures of foreign policies with the activities of domestic papists ( 1625 ) and raised the bogy of their ‘ swarming ’ in the suburbs , claiming that in his neighbourhood of Covent Garden they outnumbered Protestants by three to one and had set up an autonomous community too strong for ‘ us the justices ’ to ‘ cast out ’ . |
| 30 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |