Example sentences of "to [noun pl] set [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Although keen to attract industry into funding health science , he is profoundly opposed to companies setting up ‘ slush funds ’ that would cover the costs of a particular project .
2 In an attempt to boost exports , the government increased incentives to companies setting up in export processing zones .
3 Such policies would involve government intervention to provide better training and job information to reduce occupational immobility , and grants to firms to set up in areas of high unemployment to reduce regional imbalances .
4 Many foreign governments give grants and incentives to firms to set up manufacturing bases in their country and their purchasing strategy favours goods made at home .
5 Finally the Action Team is keen to support ideas promoting the area with the aim of making the area more attractive to firms setting up .
6 Many go to establishments set up especially to deal with British national tastes in food , drink , and entertainment .
7 Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved .
8 Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town .
9 Instructions to invigilators setting out the details of the procedures to be followed in the conduct of examinations shall be approved by or on behalf of the Senate .
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