Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
2 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
3 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
4 | As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound . |
5 | These towers were transeptal or set just behind the apses and were polygonal or circular in form . |
6 | All goods supplied by the Seller shall be in accordance with ( i ) the current edition of the relevant Product Description Leaflet as published from time to time by the Seller ( copies of which are available from the Seller upon request ) and ( ii ) those further specifications or descriptions ( if any ) expressly listed or set out on the face of the Order . |
7 | In defence , the dismounted men-at-arms and archers ( the archers being either in ‘ wedges ’ or set out before the men-at-arms ) provided density of resistance , giving each other support , the men-at-arms being all the better protected , since the archers were able to fire their weapons a considerable distance against an advancing enemy , thus disrupting them before they reached the defending men-at-arms who , with their own cavalry , could then mount a counter-attack . |
8 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
9 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
10 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
11 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
12 | It was like a ship that set out with the navigator doing one thing , the captain doing another , the deck hands doing something on their own . |
13 | a The form of a statutory notice , i.e. for Structure Plan and Local Plan intention to prepare/submission/modification should follow that set out in the Town and County Planning ( Structure and Local Plans ) ( Scotland ) Regulations 1983. ( 1983 No 1590 ( s. 149 ) ) . |
14 | However , the most recent statement of our approach to the question of recognition , which is also likely to guide our attitude to the adherence of these countries to the United Nations , was that set out in the meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers earlier this week . |
15 | The section only applies to public houses ( for meaning of " public house , " see s.139(1) ) in respect of which applications for Sunday opening have not been granted under Sched. 4 , and , in respect of which , part of the premises have been adapted and set aside for the provision of the customary main meal at mid-day or in the evening or both , The procedure for applying the section to the premises is similar to the procedure under 5,57 , Before a licence-holder can apply the section to his premises , he has to obtain a declaration of satisfaction from the licensing board that part of his premises are adapted and used or intended to be used for habitually providing the customary main meal at mid-day or in the evening and that the adapted part does not contain a bar counter ( subs . |
16 | The system as a whole has to be " smashed " and set aside by a vanguard party of intellectuals which leads the working class in extra-and anti-parliamentary action towards socialism ( see also Chapter 7 ) . |
17 | One of the spoke machines from the Road Vehicle Shop was adapted ; cutter block was quickly made and set up by the tool-room , but two dimensions could not be attained in this process . |
18 | He rolls up his sleeves and sets in on the dishes that I have eaten from over the course of the day . |
19 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
20 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
21 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
22 | The largest intact building , erected beside the small church , was occupied by three resident monks , a lay servant , and a group of men from Berwick , who , under the supervision of a black-robed clerk , were carrying out and setting up before the building a trestle table with a stool for each end , and a couple of benches . |
23 | But she achieved whatever she did against a massive public distaste for modern art , a fact well documented by Arnold and set clearly in the context of international and national attitudes . |
24 | The final meeting took place on Nov. 21 in Havana , Cuba , of the Joint Monitoring Commission ( JMC ) on south western Africa , comprising representatives from Angola , Cuba , Namibia , and South Africa and set up under the Brazzaville Protocol of Dec. 13 , 1988 [ see p. 36380 ] to oversee the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435/78 , on Namibian independence and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola . |
25 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
26 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
27 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
28 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
29 | For example , if you use what was the dining room for a work room/study as well , you should either have a round table which can be piled with books when necessary , a table set off-centre , or a drop-leaf table that can be pulled out and set up in the centre of the room as required . |
30 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |