Example sentences of "set [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | AROUND 50 yachts are expected to set sail from the Mersey this evening in Tranmere Sailing Club 's Annual IOM Race from Rock Ferry to Douglas . |
| 2 | Electricity users set to benefit from leap in profit |
| 3 | They decided , with a wild mixture of folly and idealism , that in the spring of 1795 they would set sail from England to establish an ideal community in America , and in the meantime would gather recruits for the scheme and earn money for it by writing . |
| 4 | To appreciate the remoteness of this morsel of land , one must set sail from Santiago , strike west into the great Pacific , and rely on one 's navigational skills . |
| 5 | Around 50 yachts will set sail from Rock Ferry at 5pm when the Mayor of Wirral will fire the starting cannon from the esplanade . |
| 6 | SUNDAY : Set sail from Corfu to the beautiful bay of Syvota . |
| 7 | It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | They set sail from the Guadalquivir River under the proud corporate title of the Armada de Molucca , amply armed but hopelessly provisioned , with crews composed of men of nine different nationalities and of innumerable and in many cases mutually antagonistic temperaments . |
| 9 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |
| 10 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |
| 11 | He was only a youngster when a party of keen Warrington anglers set sail from East Ferry Quay , in Cork Harbour , with local skipper Brian Byrne aboard the 30ft Lagosta . |
| 12 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |
| 13 | Building upon the work of Storey and others , the data set obtained from the two surveys will allow the identification of the contribution made by the financial assistance of each authority to the success and development of the local companies . |
| 14 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 15 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 16 | Strong figures are due from Eastern Electricity on Thursday with profits set to rise from £15.4m to £24m , while top-end estimates for Scottish Hydro-Electric are heading for £40m-£50m , up from £27m last year . |
| 17 | If , as the experts argue , board-level commitment is essential to ensure that effective risk management is driven through the entire organisation , the impetus for this is set to come from a not entirely welcome quarter . |
| 18 | In Africa , the number living in poverty is set to increase from 180 millions today to 265 millions in 2000 . |
| 19 | Government support for the Housing Corporation 's approved development programme is set to increase from £1.6 billion this year to more than £2 billion in 1993-94 . |
| 20 | Darlington Transport Company announced last night that the concessionary fare scheme rate is to increase to 10p while the cost for a bus pass is set to increase from £15 to £17.50 later this year . |
| 21 | Students in Darlington are set to benefit from a groundbreaking hi-tech mail link-up with France . |
| 22 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 23 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 24 | The PPF insist pool is set to emerge from snooker 's shadow and believe ‘ Dazzling Daz ’ can attract the necessary television exposure . |
| 25 | The number of cars alone is set to double from twenty to fourt million by the year twenty-twenty-five . |
| 26 | Yorkshire coast supermarket chain Proudfoot Ltd is set to move from its current South Cliff site to a purpose-built £1.5m new headquarters on the outskirts of Scarborough . |
| 27 | He financed a short film , The Space Movie , in which Oldfield 's music was set to footage from the American space programme . |
| 28 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 29 | Admittedly , Legent made its name as a mainframe software house but , Burton says , the proportion of revenues generated from non-mainframe sales is set to rise from around 25% last year to 40% this year and 50% in 1994 . |
| 30 | Our grant is set to rise from £5.7 million to £7.3 million in 1992 . |