Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops .
2 The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific .
3 At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department .
4 The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up .
5 A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations .
6 Under the ‘ hard ECU ’ proposal put forward by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , a new institution would be set up to manage the hard ECU , the European Monetary Fund ( EMF ) .
7 A FUND has been set up to save the giant northern hairy-nosed wombat .
8 Finally , prior to accessing the relational database you must set your DEC Rdb/VMS or ORACLE default database , as appropriate , to whichever database your LIFESPAN Manager has set up to retain the transferred LIFESPAN information .
9 A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) .
10 Both guitars have necks that are properly set to line up with the top of the bridges , and which are set up to give the correct amount of neck relief .
11 Operation Osprey has now been set up to tackle a fresh wave … a team of detectives are trying to establish a concrete link between the cases [ Craven is talking against a backcloth of computers ] .
12 In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik , was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign .
13 Then , in 1975 and 1976 , the CNAA 's committee for Art and Design , which had been set up to monitor the existing provision , instituted a major review and renewal of approval of well over 100 BA honours courses .
14 The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality .
15 A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions .
16 A new consultative group , to be set up to oversee the new programme , will include representatives from aid donors , countries possessing tropical forest , NGOs and community organisations .
17 It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job .
18 and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ?
19 As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material .
20 In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution .
21 Consequently , nuclear power was excluded from the government 's privatization plans and instead a state-owned company , Nuclear Electric , was set up to run the existing nuclear power stations ( eight Magnox , five AGR , and the PWR under construction at Sizewell ) and to continue generating around 20 per cent of electricity in England and Wales ( Scotland has a separate company ) .
22 The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases .
23 Documents-only arbitrations have been set up to provide a simple means of resolving complaints by consumers in a number of industries , such as travel and telephones .
24 Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside .
25 It depends on whether the duty solicitor scheme was set up to help the unrepresented defendant or to diversify criminal work .
26 During this time several charities were set up to help the poor .
27 A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort .
28 In the early 1980s a government-funded Japanese project was set up to develop a fifth-generation computer .
29 Three new Stock Exchange money brokers ( SEMBs ) joined the original six SEMBs to lend stocks and finance to GEMMs , and six inter-dealer brokers ( IDBs ) were set up to maintain an anonymous transactions service between GEMMs .
30 This culminated in a call for the CUC to become a high-profile campaigning body and in 1985 a working party was set up to consider the future role and shape of the CUC .
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