Example sentences of "set [adv] for the [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |