Example sentences of "[be] set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or suppose you 're setting off on a driving tour of Spain and you do n't speak the language . |
| 2 | A new high-profile lobbying organization has been set up with a view to rasing environmental issues in the European Commission . |
| 3 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 4 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 5 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 6 | A FEARLESS new organisation has been set up in a bid to finally solve the world 's greatest murder mystery the assassination in Dallas of American president John F. Kennedy . |
| 7 | It is interpretation carried out within an existing legal framework : where a trust has actually been set up by a settlor , and it is a matter for the jurist to interpret or elucidate details . |
| 8 | The Environmental Association of Tanzania ( ENATA ) has been set up by a group of professionals with skills in tackling environmental problems . |
| 9 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 10 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 11 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 12 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 13 | Our policy , both for nuclear and conventional defence , is clear , has been set out in a number of documents and is properly costed . |
| 14 | Polarisation means there will be an end to the practice of claiming to be an independent financial intermediary when in fact 80–90 per cent of a firms policies are set up with a parent organisation . |
| 15 | This was substituted by a new clause which stated that ‘ parties , mass organisations and mass movements are set up under a procedure established by legislation , and function within the framework of the constitution and law ’ of the republic . |
| 16 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 17 | The procedures for an auction process are set out in a transmittal included in section 1102.12 . |
| 18 | My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that as a result of the advice that he was given by Mr er it was clear to him that he had no way out of this contract , that he was committed to it and that he had no choice but to proceed with the matter and there was then er further discussion on the telephone on this day , Friday , between Mr and Mr to where they were going here and Mr said he would now write to the plaintiff setting out what his options were to him and the letter than was sent by Mr was dated the twenty second of October and the letter , the relevant terms of this letter are set out in a statement of claim expressing at paragraph three eleven of this statement saying and of course er that is admitted by the er defendant . |
| 19 | 11.2 In relation to commercial exploitation the Non-academic Parties and the Academic Parties agree that the terms and conditions for exploitation of and licenses granted under intellectual property rights in results deriving from the Academic Parties shall have regard to the extent to which such results are incorporated in or applied to the manufacture of commercially exploited products ( particularly where there had been substantial product development outside the project ) and to the SERC guidelines which are set out in a letter from SERC dated 13 August 1984 , together with its attachments . |
| 20 | its terms are set out in a catalogue which is readily available to be read by the customer in the absence of the salesman before the contract is made ; |
| 21 | Details of this case are set out in a briefing paper available from NATFHE , at 27 Britannia Street , London WC1X 9JP . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 23 | LANtastic is a peer-to-peer system and because the memory requirement of LANtastic is low , each computer on the network can be set up as a server and still function as a regular PC . |
| 24 | It is sometimes useful to encourage meetings to be set up as a form of ritual . |
| 25 | A National Integration Council would be set up as a forum for discussions on these issues . |
| 26 | Each Database can be set up with a range of users and passwords . |
| 27 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 28 | a committee may be set up by a board of directors to do ‘ spade work ’ and avoid detailed discussions at board meetings . |
| 29 | I think actually , you have to be set up in a conversation first . |
| 30 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |