Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolín set off for Rome on 19 July . |
| 2 | Thomson , eager to experience as many of these opportunities as possible , set off for Penang in 1862 . |
| 3 | Imagine the scene : as the sun rises over the purple hills of Umbria in central Italy , Franco Scarponi and his son Adolfo set off in search of one of the region 's most highly prized delicacies — juniper berries . |
| 4 | Once the press had exhausted the possibilities of interviewing the two of us , and had decided that our unregenerate and politically incorrect tourers were not what they wanted in a photograph , one enterprising organiser set off in search of better material . |
| 5 | The major new documentary series of the year was Granada 's widely acclaimed ‘ Disappearing World ’ in which Brian Moser set off in search of native tribes in the remotest parts of the world . |
| 6 | Leaving Paddy Mayne to bring up what he could in the way of supplies from Kabrit , Stirling set off from Siwa to Eighth Army Headquarters , which he found in turmoil . |
| 7 | When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) . |
| 8 | On a different level the academy established at Woolwich in 1741 , the great engineering school set up at Mézières in 1748 , the combined artillery and engineer school created in Russia in 1756 , and a number of similar establishments , provided the armies of Europe with a greater fund of technical knowledge than they had hitherto possessed . |
| 9 | Unlike Blackburn , I have actually been a member of just such a ‘ new left grouping ’ , the ‘ Alternative 86 ’ Alliance ( of greens and reds ) set up in Paris in 1986 with just such an anti-sectarian aim in mind . |
| 10 | The best-known example of this , and probably the most ambitious , was the political academy set up in Paris in 1712 by the Marquis de Torcy . |
| 11 | The main speaker will be Cefin Campbell , director of Menter Cwm Gwendraeth , set up in Dyfed in 1989 . |
| 12 | The Accademia Reale set up in Turin in 1677 , the Noble Cadet Corps established in Saint Petersburg in 1731 , the Ecole Royale Militaire which came into existence in Paris in 1751 , the military academies established at Wiener-Neustadt in 1752 and Zamora in 1790 , were all essentially intended to prepare young nobles for a military career . |
| 13 | In 1868 he moved back to London , where he set up in practice at 46 Queen Anne 's Gate as a consulting civil engineer , in association with his son Sydney William Yockney . |
| 14 | Not much , says Mr Day , and he predicts that smaller firms that do n't want to work in regulated areas will break away from the Institute and set up in practice as plain accountants . |
| 15 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 16 | A more lenient standard , set out on legislation in 1975 , permits judges ( at their discretion ) to admit as evidence almost any opinion from an ‘ expert witness ’ , defined as someone who is qualified ‘ by knowledge , skill , experience , training or education ’ to speak to a given subject . |
| 17 | Mr Horie , 54 , set out from Hawaii on 29 October in a canoe-shaped boat with a set of bicycle pedals connected to a propeller . |
| 18 | Workers are more limited to particular geographical locations , and workers ' organizations can be completely destroyed or set back for years by unsuccessful struggles such as long running strikes or ( still more ) a general strike . |