Example sentences of "to set [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 2 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 3 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 4 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 5 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 6 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 7 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 8 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |