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

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1 What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . .
2 to begin working on next year 's pay claim and to set up a working group to consider new strategies for the campaign ;
3 But Leeds City found a saviour in Mr J. Connor , secretary of the West Riding Football Association , who with four other local citizens decided to form a syndicate , with himself as chairman , to keep the club at Elland Road , and to set up a limited liability company .
4 The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules .
5 Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run .
6 Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator Terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run .
7 He said the Budget had two objectives in that respect : to support the recovery in the year ahead ; and to set out a clear medium-term strategy for bringing the borrowing requirement back towards balance .
8 The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial .
9 Now those same partners gave their blessing to the idea of the two solicitors moving out of their own offices , and setting up a temporary Law Centre where everyone involved could get together and fight for the return of the children ; they would fight for justice , and ultimately a judicial inquiry .
10 Banks can thus cut costs by absorbing their leasing , factoring and other subsidiaries and setting up a unified sales team for many of their products .
11 Her first challenge will be trying to account for the project 's funding , providing health statistics and setting up a new bookkeeping system for the hospital that is simple enough for people to use when she has gone .
12 In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange .
13 The Royal Commission on Justice has recommended changes to include curtailing a defendant 's automatic right to be tried by jury and setting up a new appeals procedure .
14 Act 4 of 1984 contained detailed provisions of unfair competition and was re-enacted by statute 86 of 1990 prohibiting ‘ unfair conduct on the market ’ and setting up a virtual equivalent of a monopolies and mergers commission .
15 It was reported that immediately after the close of the congress around 120 of these delegates began discussions on splitting from the Estonian CP and setting up a rival communist party in Estonia which would be subordinate to the CPSU .
16 In his first season at Upton Park , he became the uncrowned King of the East End , scoring 28 goals in his first season and setting up an unrivalled scoring partnership with Tony Cottee .
17 Of the rebellion in Mesopotamia he wrote that it could be dealt with by raising two divisions of volunteer local troops , reducing the British administrative staff and setting up an Arab government under the indirect control of a British officer .
18 He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter .
19 We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position .
20 Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES .
21 Agreements signed on Oct. 28 provided F5,000 million ( US$1,000 million ) worth of French loans and export credits to the Soviet Union , and set up a joint five-year industrial , scientific and technical programme involving professional training , co-operation between public-sector enterprises , and scientific research .
22 Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’
23 Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own .
24 When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will .
25 The latter piece of legislation , the so-called Wagner Act , further established penalties for employers seeking to prevent unions from organising freely and set up a new federal agency , the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to ensure its provisions were enforced ( Wallace et al. , 1988 ) .
26 ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years .
27 No no no no you basically the company is pulled out of the ordinary high street travel business and set up a new concept in business travel .
28 Swansea were packed with six of the current Welsh side and set up a mouthwatering revenge mission for the national side on November 21 .
29 It abolished the distinction between elementary and higher education , and set up a unified system of free , compulsory schooling from the age of 5 to 15 ( to be raised when practicable to 16 ) .
30 ‘ What 's so marvellous , is that these kids who are doing bum jobs , and are said to be idiots , can get themselves organized like this , and set up a fabulous military strategy that goes into battle . ’
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