Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |
| 2 | As long ago as 1985 we set out our intention to remove students ' general entitlement to certain benefits . |
| 3 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 4 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 5 | In 1867 he set off again , this time for Vietnam , and from there to Hong Kong . |
| 6 | In 1834 he set up on his own in London as a general chemical manufacturer . |
| 7 | At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting 's Alley , which was near the Royal Exchange . |
| 8 | Between five and six we set out . |
| 9 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 10 | By daylight it was clear they had missed their rendezvous , and at about 0800 they set course for Malta , taking a back-bearing from Mount Etna . |
| 11 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 12 | On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service . |
| 13 | In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy . |
| 14 | Joe Meek moved to North London and in 1960 he set up his own recording studios above a leather shop , where he produced dozens of hits … |
| 15 | In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system . |
| 16 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 17 | Fifty thousand we set it up to . |
| 18 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 19 | In 1930 she set off on her first solo long distance flight and broke the record from England to Australia . |
| 20 | In Chapter 6 we set out a dual-route model of reading aloud , distinguishing between a lexical procedure and a non-lexical procedure for converting print to speech . |
| 21 | In 1847 he set up his own practice in Truro and designed the Old Rectory when he was only twenty-four years old . |
| 22 | At eleven they set off on the heralded and substantial walk . |
| 23 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
| 24 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 25 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 26 | According to Boswell , ‘ Between twelve and one we set out , and travelled eleven miles , through a wild country , till we came to a house in Glenmorison [ the modern spelling adds a ‘ t ’ — Glenmoriston : Johnson calls it Glenmollison ] called Anoch , kept by a McQueen . ’ |
| 27 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 28 | In 1961 he set up a working group , in the Ministry , ‘ to study the long term development of roads and traffic in urban areas and their influence on the urban environment ’ ; the leader was Colin Buchanan . |
| 29 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 30 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |