Example sentences of "set [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met a boy in his mid-twenties , from Kentucky , who had come to New York to set up as a dentist . |
| 2 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 3 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 4 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 5 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 6 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 7 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 8 | A few people have tried to set up as independent ironers but we seem to be reluctant to pay someone £4 an hour to iron . |
| 9 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
| 10 | Is erm , set down as a related document form there or ? |
| 11 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 12 | And all of us as it were , set aside as a block , all the second homes as holiday homes and say , those are as it were , outside this enquiry , we 'll leave them there . |
| 13 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 14 | The reason for this difference is very much because of its funding : set up as a developmental project it needed to test the market for its services without putting too many financial obstacles in the way of the users of the services . |
| 15 | Between the build-up to the national railway dispute in 1907 and the end of 1909 no fewer than sixty-seven new boards were established , not including those set up as part of the settlement of the rail strike itself . |
| 16 | Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position . |
| 17 | They thought then that they would set out as an army and conquer the rest of the land and rule over it ; that was their mission . |
| 18 | Verses 8–10 : if a man died childless , his brother was duty bound to raise heirs to him by his widow ( set out as the Levirate law , Deuteronomy 25:5 ) . |
| 19 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 20 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 21 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
| 22 | to get together and communicate that because it 's set down as target you 've got to do it so you will , you will set the time aside where it 's easy enough |
| 23 | These are extremely important leisure pursuits in France , including the French uplands and some areas of land are set aside as ‘ hunting reserves ’ . |
| 24 | In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones . |
| 25 | Members of the RIBA are being invited by the President of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors to attend Rooftec '90 as the guests of the Federation on Wednesday 7 November , which is being set aside as Architects Day . |
| 26 | Seventy-five per cent of the receipts from council-house sales , and half of the receipts from other sales , must be set aside as provision to meet credit liabilities ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : Clause 59 ) , and only the remainder is available for further capital expenditure . |
| 27 | One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the whole list of injuries is set aside as a sort of sub-section , marked by three asterisks at the top and three at the bottom , so that the change of topic or scene is explicitly signalled to the reader . |
| 29 | Subsequently he disobeys God disastrously , and has to be set aside as king in favour of David . |
| 30 | Parts of Tunstall and Rendlesham forests , in Suffolk , are being set aside as a reserve for the woodlark , one of Britain 's rarest birds . |