Example sentences of "[vb mod] set [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I ask your pardon for leaving you waiting at the door , but I 'm pressed , Owen , the days crowd me , and there are things I must set forward while I may . |
2 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
3 | Teachers and schools are of necessity partners in the business of curriculum reform and partners must set forth on an enterprise with an understanding of what it is about , and a certain confidence in the policies they pursue . |
4 | Holidaymakers should set aside a day for the glass-bottomed boat trips to Walt Disney World in the lost city of Orlando , where the spires of Cinderella 's Castle rise majestically above the waves . |
5 | Finally , you should set aside some time every week to take stock of your work and your progress . |
6 | If , for example , you have two lectures a week in a particular subject — say , on Tuesday and Thursday mornings — and a weekly tutorial — say , on Tuesday afternoons — then you should set aside regular time(s) — say , an hour or two on a Monday and another hour on , say , a Thursday — to study to and prepare for that class . |
7 | If they permit smoking , they should set aside special rooms for those who wish to smoke and for those who do not . |
8 | It tells judges that when statutes are disputed and precedents are of uncertain impact , they should set aside any idea that their decision can rest on rights already established through past political acts . |
9 | Richard says even businessmen should set aside time for romance . |
10 | Authorities were also asked to produce local charters which could set more ambitious and specific targets . |
11 | The court may set aside the demand if the debtor appears to have a counterclaim , set-off or cross claim equalling or exceeding the debt demanded , the debt is disputed on grounds which appear to the court to be substantial , the creditor appears to hold some security for the debt of sufficient value , or the court is satisfied on other grounds that the demand ought to be set aside . |
12 | The court may set aside proceedings , including any step taken in the proceedings and any judgment , order or document therein , on the grounds of non-compliance with the Rules . |
13 | By making necessary height adjustments to the camel 's feet , the pier would set firmly over the natural irregularities of the foundation . |
14 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
15 | The judges also said that they would set aside the orders of Justice Morling that the Tobacco Industry of Australia could never , at any time in the future , replicate the claims contained in the offending sentence . |
16 | A government determined to give poorer people a larger say over their own lives would set aside a small capital sum to support the central finance of credit unions . |
17 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
18 | The ecology people were still mailing all sorts of publications to her , and her mouth would set hard with pain when she read Lucy 's name in a list of credits or committee members . |
19 | I shall set aside a part of each day to think about you . ’ |
20 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
21 | If correctly mixed , Gyproc cove adhesive will remain usable for about 30 minutes after mixing , and will set hard in about an hour . |
22 | If you have too many coming out of the oven at the same time , some will set too hard while the others are being rolled up . |
23 | Under the letter of intent , StorageTek agreed to issue 1.3m new shares Amperif shareholders and will set aside about 600,000 shares for warrants and employee stock options , valuing the company at $75.3m at the time of the announcement — but that valuation quickly improved to $83.6m as Storage shares shot up $4.375 to $44 even in after-hours trading on the news , and hovered round there on Friday . |
24 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
25 | If depreciation is provided for in terms of replacement costs , this means that the business will set aside out of profits enough funds to replace its expired assets . |
26 | The company will set aside at least four hectares of forest around each of the 100-odd woodpecker colonies in its lands in Arkansas , Louisiana , Mississippi and South Carolina . |
27 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
28 | Farmers can set aside more than minimum requirement ( this takes in farmers on previous five-year scheme ) . |
29 | Despite the older officers ' complaints , the level of job satisfaction — when they can set aside the paperwork and get out into the field — is high ( cf. |
30 | Broadly , there is today a consensus that there are limits to the extent to which those who study and write about society can set aside their own commitments and prejudices . |