Example sentences of "they set [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summer they set up a video camera on Berry Head near Torquay to show close-up views of cliff-dwelling birds . |
| 2 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 3 | They set up a satellite link with Tokyo and announced that they would charge only 5 per cent buyer 's premium instead of the now customary 10 per cent . |
| 4 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 5 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 6 | They set up a ruck , the ball was passed back to Sherrell who dropped a goal . |
| 7 | The people divided : Magharba to the north , Zuwaya to the south ; and the committee marshalled the Magharba into the northwesterly quarter ; they set up a teller 's desk near the goalposts , and the voters walked behind the goal-posts ; past a clerk , returning to the pitch where they watched , chatted , and listened to the count . |
| 8 | Proclaiming themselves to be engaged in the most radical review of social security since Beveridge , they set up a number of ministerially dominated committees to explore options for reform . |
| 9 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 10 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
| 11 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 12 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 13 | They set up the pageant in a village street , and not one cottager came out to greet them . |
| 14 | When the Countryside Commission received a bequest of over £300,000 they set up the Countryside Trust which is being used to make grants to assist fundraising for projects . |
| 15 | They set aside a room for Howard to work in , when he 's not labouring outside with an axe or a scythe . |
| 16 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
| 17 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |