Example sentences of "setting [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compare the total realisable value of stocks with the total cost could result in an unacceptable setting off of foreseeable losses against unrealised profits . |
| 2 | If in fact very few young people are actually ‘ into ’ heroin , then all the media coverage , the ‘ war on drugs ’ , the setting up of new clinics and drugs squads , is all overreaction and should be stopped in its tracks now . |
| 3 | For this reason , the report has recommended the setting up of new agencies to monitor government spending and environmental impact . |
| 4 | The Act also provides for the setting up of new procedures for the identification of children with special educational needs and for the establishment of a new definition for the term . |
| 5 | Nor does the setting up of separate households necessarily imply a weakening of social and caring relationships . |
| 6 | Among their other recommendations were : the inclusion of human rights issues at all levels of education ; the promotion of genuine participatory democracies ; the setting up of regional courts for human rights as part of a network to promote human rights in Africa . |
| 7 | Since then , due to the stimulus and support given by the Centre to twentieth-century art , the setting up of regional funds for acquiring contemporary art , and the emergence of a new generation of museum curators , the landscape has completely changed . |
| 8 | The primacy had vanished with the setting up of four archbishoprics directly dependent on the pope . |
| 9 | As well as kinder practices at parish level there was a more marked emphasis by reformers on finding alternative methods of helping the poor , for example in facilitating the setting up of friendly societies , the most popular vehicle for self-help . |
| 10 | The ruling Military Committee of National Salvation ( CMSN ) on July 25 adopted a law which allowed for the setting up of political parties , with the exception of specifically Islamic parties or parties based on race or region . |
| 11 | The Committee of 100 Against the Poll Tax in Scotland was supported with a call for the setting up of similar groups across the country . |
| 12 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 13 | Another important area of discretionary power arises in the setting up of special squads — fraud , obscene publications , robbery and so on — to concentrate on particular crimes . |
| 14 | The Act also provides the setting up of duty-free zones and perhaps for our present purpose it is sufficient to say that companies established in a duty-free zone are treated in every way as if they were established outside of the borders of the Hungarian Republic . |
| 15 | The setting up of these committees ( largely advisory ) proved to be a popular and widespread development , though only two in the 1920s were sufficiently large to be considered ‘ regional ’ : the Midlands and the Manchester JTPCs . |
| 16 | Vodafone Group Plc said yesterday it is to encourage the setting up of retail outlets that will offer a full range of cellular phones and after-sales service : it is not allowed to sell direct itself , but will jointly fund refurbishment and shopfitting of high street outlets with service providers and hopes to have 170 stores operating across the country by summer next year ; it looks to spend £10m over two years and aims for a shop on every major UK high street and up to 25 within the M25 London orbital motorway . |
| 17 | The declaration also covered economic co-operation , joint ecological programmes , renewal of consular relations , the setting up of cultural centres , national minorities , and the role of young people . |
| 18 | This aspect arose in particular over the setting up of safe havens for the Kurds . |
| 19 | Provision was made for the setting up of voluntary schools . |
| 20 | The Scott report , published in 1942 , urged the setting up of a planning system embracing the countryside as well as the town , mainly with a view to preserving the best agricultural land from urban development , but also recommending the setting up of national parks . |
| 21 | These competencies will be revised in proposed amendments to the current legislation in line with UKCC policy and the setting up of educational reforms introduced by Project 2000 ( see chapter 5 ) . |
| 22 | The first of these involved grassroots campaigning , the setting up of local groups , farmers and landowners putting up notices stating ‘ No Uranium Prospecting ’ . |
| 23 | The Act has given rise to the setting up of self-regulatory organisations by financial institutions and others concerned with the provision of financial services . |
| 24 | This absence of feudal social and political structure prior to the onset of industrialisation has been held to help account for US ‘ exceptionalism ’ , in the form of a weakened socialist consciousness and the lack of strong political Party-union ties , although there are undoubtedly other important factors as well , including the scarcity of manpower and ample employment opportunities for skilled workers , which militated against challenge along political and ideological lines ; a complex ethnic ( immigrant ) labour force composition and racial cleavage , which impeded collective action on a class basis ; and a political and constitutional structure that discouraged the setting up of third parties ( Lipset , 1977 ) . |