Example sentences of "set [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 2 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 3 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 4 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 5 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 6 | He swivelled round to set up the next track . |
| 7 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 8 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 9 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Activities that would lead towards the objective of writing a short story might be , ‘ clear the spare room out and set up a desk ’ , ‘ enrol on a weekend workshop on creative writing ’ , ‘ set aside the next four Sunday afternoons for writing ’ , ‘ arrange to visit a friend in six weeks ’ time with a completed first draft' . |
| 12 | But before she could set off the next day , the hospital telephoned with bad news . |
| 13 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 14 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 15 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 16 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 17 | In the end we decided to go to bed , and then set out the next morning just in time to catch the ship to Hamburg . |
| 18 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 19 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 20 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |
| 21 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 22 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 23 | The ascii code allows for these by setting aside the first 32 values , from 00h to 1Fh , as ‘ control characters ’ . |
| 24 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 25 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 26 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 27 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 28 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 29 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 30 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |