Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 32 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 33 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 34 | The helicopter and a standby vessel spotted a flare set off by the crew and stayed in the vicinity until the men were winched to safety by an RAF helicopter . |
| 35 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 36 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 37 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 38 | In the past six months , 65,000 people have joined the Reform of Heisei , a pressure group set up in the wake of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal by Kenichi Ohmae , the Tokyo head of the management consultancy , McKinsey . |
| 39 | The Child Poverty Action Group , a pressure group set up in the 1960s , urged governments to deal with this problem by increasing family allowances . |
| 40 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 41 | THE BRYAN ADAMS LIVE show calls for simple staging and a powerful sound , and to make things more intimate for the audience it involves the band disappearing from the main stage to reappear on a small podium set out in the audience . |
| 42 | There 's this big brass band set up in the middle of the station with these people sitting in chairs with their instruments all silvery and shiny . |
| 43 | The Martin Hannett-produced ‘ Get Better ’ is their second 45 since singing to the Belgian label and the band set out on a European tour in March including a date at The Locomotive in Paris on March 20 . |
| 44 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 45 | Rather later than planned Rain set off for the Old Mitre pub . |
| 46 | Furthermore , the exercise of such discretion would not in my opinion be amenable to judicial review on the basis set out in the decision of your Lordships ' House in Reg. v. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council , Ex parte Chetnik Developments Ltd. [ 1988 ] A.C. 858 . |
| 47 | LIFESPAN identifies its offline media by a character string set up in the configuration file . |
| 48 | Using an Ovation , hardly the most ‘ live ’ guitar in the business , I found that feedback on the undamped D string set in with the gain on 4 and the master volume on 5 , which surprised me . |
| 49 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 50 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 51 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 52 | As one group member said : ‘ What I 'd like to see happening is this room set up with the computer and using it regularly to type up the notes from our meetings . ’ |
| 53 | When the Winterthur show went to the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover as the second leg of its tour I was approached by the director of an art community set up in a distillery . |
| 54 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 55 | But in 1919 disenchantment set in around the globe . |
| 56 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 57 | That emerged yesterday during a visit to Shetland by Lord Donaldson , who is heading the inquiry into shipping safety set up after the disaster . |
| 58 | A distinguished Commission on Electoral Reform set up under the auspices of the Hansard Society published in 1976 a Report in which it included its own proposals for a new electoral system . |
| 59 | In short , there are many variations on the theme set out in the last paragraph . |
| 60 | the evidence set out by the Society of Black Lawyers and the statistics released by the CLE which give reasonable cause to believe that the CLE has unlawfully discriminated against black students on racial grounds in : |