Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors set up a ‘ cut-price ’ arrangement which enabled house-buyers to take disputes about house surveys to arbitration . |
| 2 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 3 | It has 94 rooms and self-catering apartments set around a central pool and bar , around which much of the hotel life revolves . |
| 4 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 5 | The following pages set out an extract from a typical ( asset ) sale agreement . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Britain 's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a little flair . |
| 7 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 8 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 9 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 10 | ‘ Valerie , ’ he said to me , ‘ I 'll have to take these two to my mother again , ’ at which the little ones set up an ungrateful wail , ‘ but I 'll be back as soon as possible . |
| 11 | In France , the post-war nationalizations set up a tripartite scheme of management with representation of users , public authorities and employees ( Dubois 1975 : 161–3 ; Holter 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Two stunning resorts set around a glimmering bay . ’ |
| 13 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |
| 14 | Under cover of the so-called United Nations Commission for Korea , American ruling circles set up a puppet ‘ Government ’ under the traitor Syngman Rhee , who traded away the independence and national wealth . |
| 15 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 16 | Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues . |
| 17 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |
| 18 | In August the Young Republicans set up a front organisation , the People 's Action League , which planned to campaign on the issue of high-rise flats , and picketed the Guildhall , calling for an extension of the city boundary and , on another occasion , at the siting of a new Michelin factory at Ballymena in County Antrim instead of Derry . |
| 19 | Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance . |
| 20 | The occupying forces set up a puppet government and proclaimed it independent of Russia . |
| 21 | In another move to improve services for parents , principal child protection officer Evelyn Joseph is helping local voluntary organisations set up an advocacy project for black parents who come into contact with the child protection team . |
| 22 | The shuddering tramp of the oxen spinning the Persian wheels set over every deep well , so that the jars came up , roped with pomegranate wood withies , and tossed their icy water into the stone channels that fed the fields and the housewife 's wood buckets . |
| 23 | These Holy Ones set out the rules by which we can live our lives and , in turn , reach the state of a higher being which is dormant within each one of us . |