Example sentences of "have set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey .
2 MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest .
3 Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city .
4 Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room .
5 The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land .
6 Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) .
7 Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War .
8 They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis .
9 Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland .
10 I have set out below a brief paragraph in respect of each question which you could use in your replies , however I would be grateful if you would qualify any replies to indicate that these are general answers and that any specific queries on individual cases should be referred to the Council Tax Section at Chesser House or myself .
11 But he , or she , does need to be within striking distance of yourself , especially when you have set out on the tricky waters of the novel .
12 Very few of the proposals that we have set out in the preceding sections will be successful unless Britain is prepared to work in partnership within the Community .
13 In 1967 the government accepted many of the economic principles we have set out in the last two chapters .
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