Example sentences of "it set [adv prt] its [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In 1989 it set up its Conservation Register , an extensive computerized database listing conservators working in over one hundred different fields whose working practices , studio security , fees and other professional requirements have been carefully vetted by the Unit before inclusion on their files .
2 Since it set up its own light rapid transit section three years ago , Regional Railways ' active co-operation has helped the evolution of the Tyne and Wear project , the Manchester Metro and the South Yorkshire Supertram out of Sheffield .
3 The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee .
4 When it became the Combined Studies ( Creative and Performing Arts ) Board it set up its own panels , including , in November 1975 , a Movement and Dance Panel under the chairmanship of Peter Brinson .
5 De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] .
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