Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out the views of the membership below . |
| 2 | These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area . |
| 3 | Jane took the initiative and with encouragement from other students and tutors on the scheme she set up the Achievement Group , a ‘ students supporting students ’ programme . |
| 4 | She set up the business with a £4,000 bank loan and shortage of capital persuaded her to expand through franchising . |
| 5 | She set up the business with her husband Jeremy after receiving a £3,000 grant from the Princes Trust and help from Darlington Business Venture . |
| 6 | She set up the ladder beneath the hatch . |
| 7 | She set up the shop in 1990 with the intention of selling yarn , patterns and accessories . |
| 8 | She set down the tray and scampered off . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , as she set down the tray between them , ‘ do you always go into the office on Saturdays ? |
| 10 | She set out the pieces one by one on the counter . |
| 11 | But there was something of an occasion , even a ceremony , even a sacrament , in the way , on this evening , she set out the food and the vessels . |
| 12 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 13 | Well I have to admit , with our group , the first ten minutes or was a little bit disorganised because I felt we , I came in , we set down the objects , I felt we did that well , and we were clear of the timescale from the very beginning . |
| 14 | 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 , |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ My father was n't exactly short of money when he set up the trust . ’ |
| 17 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 18 | He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera . |
| 19 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 20 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
| 21 | The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 . |
| 22 | He set up the prize to give aspiring writers a chance to step on the first rung of the literary ladder . |
| 23 | He should know : he set up the police unit which , fictionalised , rushes around the small screen under the name ’ Miami Vice ’ . |
| 24 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |
| 25 | ‘ So I was informed , ’ Rohan Saint Yves said grimly , as he set down the tray . |
| 26 | He set down the plate and taking a piece of newspaper out of his pocket wrapped the fat up and put it in his pocket . |
| 27 | Back at Cliff Top over tea in his caravan , he set out the column headings for me thus : |
| 28 | Mr Kantor , before the Council of the Americas , gave a speech committing the administration to implementing a North American Free Trade Agreement by January 1st 1994 ; on the same day , he set out the administration 's determination to conclude the Uruguay round of the GATT by December . |
| 29 | On the contrary , he set about the formation of the National government with an enthusiasm which showed that the adventure was highly agreeable to him . |
| 30 | Following demobilisation , he set about the rehabilitation of the Trinidad Workingmen 's Association , whilst at the same time getting himself elected as mayor of Port of Spain . |