Example sentences of "set [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me try and set down the opposing points of view . |
| 2 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 3 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 4 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , we often lose sight of this goal and set up the organizational layers in our managerial hierarchies to accommodate pay brackets and facilitate career development instead . |
| 6 | This introduced a new currency and set out the necessary steps of raising taxes , cutting public spending , selling state monopolies , keeping wage increases realistic and generally enlivening Argentina 's corporatist state . |
| 7 | Before leaving the ground floor , make your notes and sketches and set out the approximate costs of making good the defects and of any necessary alterations . |
| 8 | In seeking to make these aims operational , the plan set out the general characteristics of the proposed polytechnic : it was to be a ‘ broadly-based institution catering for a wide range of higher education for the over-18 age groups ’ , giving priority to sandwich courses , but providing courses other than degree courses for those able to benefit from ‘ advanced courses of a specialist nature ’ . |
| 9 | The Committee set out the principal options , and the preferences of the broadcasters . |
| 10 | It set out the following aims and objectives : |
| 11 | Thatcher was reported as wanting the CSCE to set out the conditions for free elections , provide observers to monitor their observance , define the rule of law and human rights , set out the essential principles for sound legal systems and help to resolve minority rights issues . |
| 12 | I thank the Minister for the way in which he introduced the debate and set out the technical reasons for the order . |
| 13 | There was none at all in the subsequent Financial Services Bill and the accompanying paper from the SIB , Regulation of Investment Business , which simply set out the proposed clauses to be enacted and the regulatory framework to be adopted without any attempt at justification . |
| 14 | Deepening the divisions in the West German government over EMU , the president of the Bundesbank , Karl Otto Pöhl , on Sept. 19 set out the stringent requirements for economic and monetary integration envisaged by the Bundesbank . |