Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | A FUND has been set up to save the giant northern hairy-nosed wombat . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | It depends on whether the duty solicitor scheme was set up to help the unrepresented defendant or to diversify criminal work . |
14 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
15 | A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
18 | The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments . |
19 | Saouma announced in March 1990 that an independent commission of inquiry under a former Swedish Prime Minister , Ola Ullsten , was to be set up to investigate the slow progress of the action plan for the tropical rainforests , set up in 1985 in collaboration with the UNDP and the World Resources Institute . |
20 | The Wilson Committee was set up to investigate the whole question of the provision of funds for industry and trade . |
21 | Examples of community projects that NERC has set up include the Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research ( Tiger ) , which includes carbon cycling and trace greenhouse gases , as well as water and ecosystems ; the Biomolecules Special Topic , which covers fossil biomolecules ; and a Pollutant Pathways project run jointly with the Agricultural and Food Research Council , which is studying leakage from agricultural systems into aquifers and groundwater . |
22 | Membership applications were received from all over the UK , and the MLA was set up to meet the growing demand for a central organisation . |
23 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
24 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke in particular set out to magnify the Soviet shortcomings . |
25 | From all this sprang the paradox that orders like the Cistercian — which had set out to revive the old tradition that many monasteries should be away from the world , set apart , oases in the desert — encouraged journeying and laid on their leaders the obligation to travel often and far . |
26 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
27 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
28 | While Robyn had been preoccupied with the issues of contemporary literary theory and its repercussions on the Cambridge English Faculty , the Conservative Government of Mrs Thatcher , elected in 1979 with a mandate to cut public spending , had set about decimating the national system of higher education . |