Example sentences of "they set [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In summer they set up a video camera on Berry Head near Torquay to show close-up views of cliff-dwelling birds . |
2 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
3 | They set up a satellite link with Tokyo and announced that they would charge only 5 per cent buyer 's premium instead of the now customary 10 per cent . |
4 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
5 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
6 | They set up a ruck , the ball was passed back to Sherrell who dropped a goal . |
7 | The people divided : Magharba to the north , Zuwaya to the south ; and the committee marshalled the Magharba into the northwesterly quarter ; they set up a teller 's desk near the goalposts , and the voters walked behind the goal-posts ; past a clerk , returning to the pitch where they watched , chatted , and listened to the count . |
8 | Proclaiming themselves to be engaged in the most radical review of social security since Beveridge , they set up a number of ministerially dominated committees to explore options for reform . |
9 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
10 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
11 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
12 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
13 | They set up the pageant in a village street , and not one cottager came out to greet them . |
14 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |
15 | When the Countryside Commission received a bequest of over £300,000 they set up the Countryside Trust which is being used to make grants to assist fundraising for projects . |
16 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
17 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
18 | Erm and so they set up a team erm four or five teams within the city , er which included Radford , the Crabtree Meadows area , erm and Bestwood area |
19 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
20 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |