Example sentences of "to set [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 2 | In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . |
| 3 | Born in 1841 , Robert 's origins were bona fide proletarian ; he worked in a glass factory and as a house painter , taking evening classes in art which proved such a successful venture that he was able to set up a studio by 1869 and had developed a substantial reputation by the 1880s . |
| 4 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 5 | Observe now what happens when we attempt to set up an equation like 6 using a portion of a sentence which is clearly not a semantic constituent . |