Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 2 | Since March 1990 Mid Glamorgan 's community drug team has seen a progressive increase in the number of users of anabolic steroids attending general needle exchange clinics and has therefore set up a separate service for these users . |
| 3 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
| 4 | Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals , Japan , and ICI Resins have set up a joint venture for the marketing and production of styrene acrylic and polyester photocopier toner resins . |
| 5 | There are some helpful rationalisations afoot : Mercury , together with 11 other telecomms companies , has recently set up a joint venture , FNA , to provide ‘ unified communications services ’ between the financial centres of the world . |
| 6 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 7 | England 's batsmen , led by Robin Smith , had set up a perfect platform to build the huge total that would have put Sri Lanka under great pressure . |
| 8 | Recently , Mike Lester has recognized the need to co-ordinate and develop the catering side of the operations , and has set up a small Pub Catering Department under the Estates division . |
| 9 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 10 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 11 | She teaches literacy , numeracy and music to a variety of patients from the centre , and has set up a small bible group with the chaplain . |
| 12 | THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry . |
| 13 | In response , SCOTVEC recently set up a small group to consider how to extend the construction option to cover building services , by the addition of extra modules . |
| 14 | The economics department at Ripon Grammar School have set up a small business producing items connected with the history of the city . |
| 15 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 16 | [ Before du Pre 's death in 1987 , he had quietly set up a second household in Paris with the former wife of violinist Gideon Kramer . ] |
| 17 | The Korean government quickly set up a rival organization to the ITF , called the World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ) . |
| 18 | IBM has set up a toll-free number to handle calls : ( 800 ) IBM-CALL . |
| 19 | It has also set up a worldwide VAR and distribution channel to market CA-Unicenter and a new line of Unix products . |
| 20 | International has set up a worldwide installation service for Seacontrol . |
| 21 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's notion that Sun Microsystems Inc has set up a hush-hush research unit to investigate HyperSparc ( UX No 410 ) , is what you might call a tad overstated . |
| 22 | Having set up a certain attitude and a certain power , you must check , by scanning your flight instruments , that the desired performance is being achieved , and also that it is being maintained . |
| 23 | To help investigate gill net use and bird deaths elsewhere around the coast , the Society has set up a confidential phone line . |
| 24 | LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence . |
| 25 | The Government of Ireland Act 1920 had set up a regional parliament and government . |
| 26 | Q I have recently set up a four foot tank which I furnished with rocks , caves and bogwood . |
| 27 | His party argued the Tories had set up a Economic Development Forum but had not put enough money in . |
| 28 | ST MARY 'S set up a mouthwatering final with Queen 's after a spirited victory over UCG at St Paul 's . |
| 29 | PRINCE Edward is calling in top football teams to help set up a new-look Duke of Edinburgh award . |
| 30 | , According to US sources , Soviet nuclear scientists have set up a private company , CHETEK , to carry out the incineration of toxic chemicals and decommissioned nuclear reactors in underground nuclear plants . |