Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 2 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 3 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 4 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 5 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 6 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 7 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 8 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 9 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 10 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 11 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 12 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 13 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 14 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 15 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 16 | I have set out below a brief paragraph in respect of each question which you could use in your replies , however I would be grateful if you would qualify any replies to indicate that these are general answers and that any specific queries on individual cases should be referred to the Council Tax Section at Chesser House or myself . |
| 17 | But he , or she , does need to be within striking distance of yourself , especially when you have set out on the tricky waters of the novel . |
| 18 | Very few of the proposals that we have set out in the preceding sections will be successful unless Britain is prepared to work in partnership within the Community . |
| 19 | In 1967 the government accepted many of the economic principles we have set out in the last two chapters . |