Example sentences of "set [adv] as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 2 | The employee set up as a tailor within the relevant area within two years of leaving his employment . |
| 3 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 4 | Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 . |
| 5 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 6 | They objected because Nkrumah had set up a ‘ Ghana National College ’ for the education of students expelled because of their support during the banishment of the Big Six ; they objected to his launching of the Accra Evening News , an anti-colonial voice which achieved immediate popularity ; most of all they objected to his Committee on Youth Organisation , set up as a branch of the UGCC . |
| 7 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |
| 8 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 9 | Outside the Algarve — where the majority of accommodation is self-catering — by staying at pousadas , like Spanish paradores , set up as a method of making otherwise disused monasteries , castles and fortresses pay their way . |
| 10 | Their complaint that they had been betrayed by a Committee ‘ set up as a result of the pressure by the NFOAPA upon individual MPs ’ was , however , some way wide of the mark . |
| 11 | The advisory group , set up as a result of the SSI 's criticisms , said : ‘ We were disappointed to find that there seems to have been very little improvement . ’ |
| 12 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 13 | One of the innovatory features of the Act is that the holder of the office it sets up — the Data Protection Registrar — has the task of applying a set of principles — the Data Protection Principles , set out as a Schedule to the Act . |