Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 2 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 3 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 4 | Agreements signed on Oct. 28 provided F5,000 million ( US$1,000 million ) worth of French loans and export credits to the Soviet Union , and set up a joint five-year industrial , scientific and technical programme involving professional training , co-operation between public-sector enterprises , and scientific research . |
| 5 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 6 | Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own . |
| 7 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 8 | The latter piece of legislation , the so-called Wagner Act , further established penalties for employers seeking to prevent unions from organising freely and set up a new federal agency , the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to ensure its provisions were enforced ( Wallace et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Wickedly wasteful , I know , but I smashed it , and set up a new one and I have painted upon that new one the first thing that has given me real pleasure for years , oh , years and years . |
| 10 | No no no no you basically the company is pulled out of the ordinary high street travel business and set up a new concept in business travel . |
| 11 | Swansea were packed with six of the current Welsh side and set up a mouthwatering revenge mission for the national side on November 21 . |
| 12 | It abolished the distinction between elementary and higher education , and set up a unified system of free , compulsory schooling from the age of 5 to 15 ( to be raised when practicable to 16 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's so marvellous , is that these kids who are doing bum jobs , and are said to be idiots , can get themselves organized like this , and set up a fabulous military strategy that goes into battle . ’ |
| 14 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 15 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 16 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 17 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 18 | Noell died a rich but not fabulously wealthy man , having already settled much of his property and set up a substantial charity in his native town . |
| 19 | Tries by Allan Bateman and Colin Laity brought the home team back into the hunt and set up a stirring finale to the heavyweight contest . |
| 20 | A permanent WEU group would set up military units answerable to the WEU , plan possible deployments , and set up a European armaments agency . |
| 21 | Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool . |
| 22 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 23 | Collaborative research and cross-licensing of patents : for sound reasons — high fixed costs , economies of scale , and risk-sharing — firms may pool research and development ( R&D ) resources and set up a common R&D agency . |
| 24 | If I were you I 'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium . |
| 25 | The law also allowed for foreign observers to be present at elections , and set up a 20-member central election committee . |
| 26 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 27 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 28 | And in 9 months , local people raised £600,000 and set up a charitable trust to run the hospital . |
| 29 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 30 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |