Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 2 | When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well . |
| 3 | The function of the European Legislation Committee set up in December 1972 was therefore confined to determining which proposals were legally important or politically important and to advising which of these should be debated by the full House . |
| 4 | The Supreme Soviet decisions were based on findings by an official commission set up in May 1989 to examine the investigators ' work . |
| 5 | Batrec , set up in May 1989 by several Swiss cantons , uses a system developed by the Japanese company Sumitomo Heavy Industries , which allows 95 per cent of the component parts to be reused . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , I had formed one of a group of Local Defence Volunteers , an emergency organization set up in May 1940 , later to be transformed into the Home Guard . |
| 7 | They were convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to death in recent months , with no right of appeal , by a military court set up in April 1991 . |
| 8 | In November 1986 a referendum backed the establishment of a one-party state , the sole party being the Central African Democratic Rally ( RDC ) set up in February 1987 . |
| 9 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 10 | Robert Davies , chief executive of Business in the Community International ( BITCI ) , set up in February 1990 under the auspices of the Prince of Wales to promote good community practice internationally , already perceives a ‘ sea change in attitude ’ . |
| 11 | From Lloyd George 's Reconstruction Committee , set up in February 1917 , came strong support for a Ministry of Health and an extensive housing programme for the working classes , ideas supported later by Christopher Addison as Minister of Reconstruction . |
| 12 | The interests of the non-indigenous population were articulated by bodies such as ‘ Interfront ’ in Latvia , set up in January 1989 , and its counterparts in the other republics ; the concerns of the substantial Russian-speaking minority in these republics were also expressed in letters to the central press , and found some reflection in the speeches of members of the party leadership . |
| 13 | The 15,000-member Georgian National Guard , set up in January 1991 [ see p. 37971 ] in place of conscription in the Red Army , was reported to be split between Gamsakhurdia loyalists and a rebel faction . |
| 14 | NKr6,000 million would go to the " bank insurance fund " set up in January 1991 [ ibid . ] , |
| 15 | The Harms Commission , set up in January 1990 to investigate earlier allegations made by ex-police officer Dirk Coetzee [ see p. 37033 ] , was authorized by de Klerk to investigate the latest allegations , including claims that Lubowski , a prominent member of the South West Africa People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) , was a paid agent of the SADF ; in early March the commission began hearing evidence from senior SADF commanders . |
| 16 | The Remmelink Commission , set up in January 1990 , published its conclusions on Sept. 10 , 1991 , calculating that in the Netherlands there were annually some 2,700 cases of euthanasia or assisting the death of patients , and some 1,000 cases of intervention to terminate the life of patients unable to express their wishes . |
| 17 | This is thanks to work by a corrective action team set up in January last year to investigate high and variable losses of caustic soda to the drain . |
| 18 | He was also a founding member of the Providence Island Company , set up in September 1630 ; and , in the same month , he joined William Fiennes , first Viscount Saye and Sele , Sir Nathaniel Rich , John Pym [ qq.v. ] , and John Crewe as members of a trust established by Richard Knightley [ q.v. ] to support John Dod . |
| 19 | A different form of direct action was taken by the Derry Housing Association , set up in October 1965 . |
| 20 | In revolutionary France the Legislative Assembly set up in October 1791 a permanent diplomatic committee before which the foreign minister could be called to account ; and this process was pushed to its logical conclusion when in April 1794 the Convention abolished the ministry of foreign affairs and replaced it with a Commission of Foreign Relations subject to the Committee of Public Safety . |
| 21 | The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 opens the monopoly to authorized litigators who are members of bodies approved by the machinery set up in Part II of the Act . |
| 22 | Colour analyst/hairdresser Mrs Myra Addison and photographer Mrs Ann Simmons together make up Beautiful Images , a venture set up in Darlington 15 months ago : and they came out tops with stunning portraits in competitions organised by the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Master Photographers ' Association . |
| 23 | As head of that body , set up in June 1992 , Mr Skokov oversaw the work of the defence , security , interior and foreign ministries . |
| 24 | The Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ( first set up in August 1987 — see p. 35378 ) , tabled in the Federal Parliament on May 9 , called upon Australia to improve the treatment of its black minority and , thereby , to honour its international obligations . |
| 25 | The North Atlantic Co-operation Council ( NACC ) , the joint security forum of the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact set up in November 1991 [ see pp. 38600 , 38699 ] , held its second meeting in Brussels on March 10 . |
| 26 | Attlee served as chairman of the Armistice Terms and Civil Administration Committee of the Cabinet , set up in November 1943 . |
| 27 | In some ways this move is paralleled by the development of Charter 88 , set up in November 1988 on the anniversary of the revolution of 1688 . |
| 28 | This is a two year review and strategy development programme set up in November 1990 by the deputy prime minister , Brian Howe . |
| 29 | If the result of an indemnity basis taxation is , as we were told , the invariable loss of some percentage of actual costs , that may be a criticism of the taxing masters ' approach to taxation ( although it may also be a criticism of the excessive level of the fees and disbursements that are submitted for taxation ) ; but it is not a valid criticism of the indemnity basis criterion set out in Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) . |
| 30 | For the reasons we have given we think their contractual entitlement corresponds with the indemnity basis of taxation set out in Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) . |