Example sentences of "[noun] set down " in BNC.

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1 Tickets will also be valid for travel by normal service train from Bournemouth , Southampton and Basingstoke up to London for the special , and the return working will stop at Southampton & Basingstoke to set down .
2 Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning .
3 Selected 24-piece cutlery sets down from £120 to £79 .
4 This study sets down some navigation buoys for the course between the Scylla of growing research costs , and the Charybdis of cuts in national science budgets .
5 My method now is to take the tension setting down as low as the thickness of the yarn will allow , knit a couple of rows , then increase to the loose tension .
6 Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her .
7 It said that far too many teachers had the perception that unless they followed the good practice set down by local authority advisers , their career prospects in the city would be blighted .
8 The court itself will , under this Practice Direction , continue to scrutinise every action set down to see whether it is suitable for transfer .
9 Pursuant to the Practice Direction ( Transfer of Action ) [ 1991 ] WLR 643 ( see para 1.35 ) , every action set down under automatic directions will be examined within seven days by a master to determine whether a transfer should be considered .
10 It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees .
11 In any such case the plaintiff 's solicitor will be sent a reminder of the requirement to set down and will be invited to fill in a standard report form on the state of the case .
12 Ask your child to set down a row of four figures .
13 For a moment she was quite faint ; the library rocked around her — the browsing readers with shopping baskets set down beside them , the books in their bright rows , the humming strip lights .
14 In San Salvador , meanwhile , the FMLN issued a communique setting down its conditions for a truce .
15 In San Salvador , meanwhile , the FMLN issued a communique setting down its conditions for a truce .
16 Ruth set down her cup and saucer by the stopped golden clock .
17 Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly .
18 The yeoman 's wife would tussle for a good place to set down her stool .
19 ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’
20 Twenty-six per cent of all appeals set down were disposed of in that way .
21 In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales .
22 Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies .
23 As he knows , I must decide whether to give this matter precedent over the business set down for today or for tomorrow .
24 As he knows , I have to decide whether his application comes within the Standing Order and , if so , whether a debate should be granted which would take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow .
25 The grinning waiter set down a cup of coffee by my hand .
26 The waiter set down the glasses , saying , ‘ It should be entirely forbidden . ’
27 Dropping to her knees , as if she could no longer stand on her trembling legs , and heedless of the new peach gown and the pretty fawn pelisse she had bought that covered it , Theda set down her candle on the floor with quivering fingers , and covered her face with her hands .
28 The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability .
29 ( ii ) The applicant will need to have the following experience : ( a ) Personally run at least 36 medical negligence cases over the previous 3 years ; and ( b ) had at least three cases set down and ready for trial in the three years prior to panel application .
30 The professional codes set down benchmarks for services by engineers .
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