Example sentences of "set [adv] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 2 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 3 | Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism . |
| 4 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 5 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 6 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 7 | Val set off for the interior in the best of the hire cars available , a well worn seat with grudging breaks , and drove alone on empty roads through a barren and alien territory . |
| 8 | The colonel set off for the airport with the general in custody . |
| 9 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 10 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 11 | Suddenly Sheikh shouldered his bat and , letting out a kind of howl , set out for the middle of the pitch , elbowing a fielder out of the way . |
| 12 | He put on his sandals and set out for the office of the babu who had the power to give his people what they wanted , or to refuse . |
| 13 | Flavia was working ; the long days in the tower were intact , only in the evening she set out for the house on the other bay ; the difficult hour at the cafe was cut , even writing became bearable . |
| 14 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 15 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |