Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] as " in BNC.

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1 Evangelical propaganda was thus able to achieve a sharp impact : while evangelicals like James Plumptree and Thomas Bowdler produced expurgated songs and literature , evangelical intellectuals like William Wilberforce , Hannah More and others such as Thornton and Stephen associated in the Clapham sect set up as moulders of a new ideology of domesticity , which not only proposed the family as a Christian haven in a disrupted world , but put forward a code of rules and regulations for the governing of individual lives .
2 I think we live with the local authority set up as we have it .
3 It has a wrought-iron garden gate flanked by two brick pillars and an entry phone , the whole thing set out as for a country house .
4 My short contribution will centre on the spur link set out as work No. 5 of schedule 1 , between the midland main line and the old Great Northern line , and on the importance of speedy electrification of that line .
5 Before us , in a sort of alcove brilliantly lighted … was a long table set out as one sees the Last Supper pourtrayed at Milan or elsewhere , with no one on the near side of the table …
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