Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , in December 1945 , the Ministry of Civil Aviation 's White paper on British air services , Cmd. 6712 , which set down the new government 's aviation policy , was submitted to the Cabinet by Lord Winster . |
| 2 | Set over a low heat and stir the gelatine constantly until it dissolves . |
| 3 | The shuddering tramp of the oxen spinning the Persian wheels set over every deep well , so that the jars came up , roped with pomegranate wood withies , and tossed their icy water into the stone channels that fed the fields and the housewife 's wood buckets . |
| 4 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 5 | The adrenaline makes her giggle , and still rising noradrenaline levels set off the familiar beat of passion . |
| 6 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 7 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 8 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 9 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 10 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
| 11 | There they set up a rear headquarters and resupply dump . |
| 12 | She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867 . |
| 13 | In August the Young Republicans set up a front organisation , the People 's Action League , which planned to campaign on the issue of high-rise flats , and picketed the Guildhall , calling for an extension of the city boundary and , on another occasion , at the siting of a new Michelin factory at Ballymena in County Antrim instead of Derry . |
| 14 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 15 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
| 17 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 18 | The investigators set up a bogus export company and contacted more than 130 Hunts . |
| 19 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 20 | However , some management education is provided in technical colleges which are not associated with RMCs and , somewhat concerned lest their work and status be eclipsed by nearby RMCs , they set up a separate pressure group in the form of the United Kingdom Standing Conference of Management Heads ( UKSC ) . |
| 21 | They set up a new organisation called the Sub-Tenants ' Committee , which would campaign ‘ not on political but on humanitarian grounds ’ . |
| 22 | Said Len Brealey : ‘ The plain facts are that after Mr Woolhouse failed to reach payment in an original contract we set up a new agreement . |
| 23 | They set up a traditional Scout camp , to give the children a break from the harsh conditions of their day to day existence . |
| 24 | They set up a wholly-owned subsidiary called Information Products , which is now in discussion with an outside venture capital company which will take a major shareholding . |
| 25 | FoE blames the rise of the supermarket for the decline in the use of the refillable bottle , and cites a survey last year which showed that 84 per cent of shoppers would be prepared to return containers to retailers if supermarkets set up a suitable system . |
| 26 | Following the very worthwhile discussion at the seminar we set up a Working Party to explore the main issues of concern and to suggest practical guidelines and recommendations for implementation . |
| 27 | Darius Guppy — who was best man at the 1989 wedding of Viscount Althorp , now Earl Spencer — set up a superbly-planned operation culminating in a bogus jewel robbery at a New York hotel , it was claimed . |
| 28 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 29 | I set up a great screaming to attract his attention . |
| 30 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |