Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] a [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 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | In the spring a weekly journal , Bezbozhnik , was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The scheme was set up to encourage a broader section of the public to buy works of art by living artists , thus opening up the art market while at the same time helping artists to earn an income . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s a government-funded Japanese project was set up to develop a fifth-generation computer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 17 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 18 | ‘ The facts you have set out make a sorry tale indeed . ’ |
| 19 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |