Example sentences of "by set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill would give the service a ‘ new lease of life ’ and put it in good shape to provide an even better service by setting up a new system of financial management and creating new incentives to efficiency . |
| 2 | The Commission have issued a plan to define a role for the EC by setting up a coordinated Industrial Policy ( Commission , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | After building the 2-bit latch , connect the battery and check operation by setting up a binary number such as 10 . |
| 4 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 5 | In news programmes , quality and range were sought by setting up a distinct company , ITN , which was jointly owned by the other companies and supplied news for the whole channel , and later for Channel 4 . |
| 6 | In the United States , he had begun by setting up a small press which published German writers in translation , books which kept the Germany he knew alive . |
| 7 | One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours . |
| 8 | France 's Carrefour did just that by setting up a hard-discount subsidiary , Erteco , in the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | Some are now attempting to combat the isolation they feel by setting up a national body to represent their interests . |
| 10 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 11 | Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 . |
| 12 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 13 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 14 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 15 | The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee . |
| 16 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 17 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 18 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
| 19 | The Government had responded by setting up an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of Lord Justice James to review the distribution of criminal business between the Crown Court and the Magistrates ' courts . |
| 20 | The Ministry of Housing and Local Government responded to architectural pressure by setting up an Urban Planning Group within the Ministry , which proceeded to produce a series of planning bulletins in the early 1960s to update advice on town-centre redevelopment . |
| 21 | The Elton Committee felt that teachers ' authority in this country would be better protected by setting out the fundamental principles governing that authority in statute . |
| 22 | Coastguards have slammed youths who sparked a rescue alert by setting off a red flare yesterday between Cullercoats and Tynemouth . |