Example sentences of "to set [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 2 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
| 3 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 4 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 5 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |