Example sentences of "by setting [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 2 | The Government Commission , set up by Labour in 1965 to circumvent the rest of the Civil Service , has been quietly declining under the Conservatives ; Heath has made his own arrangements to the same end , by setting up the Central Policy Review Staff , which has been housed by the Cabinet Office next door . |
| 3 | The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee . |
| 4 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 5 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 6 | The Elton Committee felt that teachers ' authority in this country would be better protected by setting out the fundamental principles governing that authority in statute . |