Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 2 | These calculations can be easily set up on a computer spreadsheet and variations may be performed to determine the best-looking selection according to the investor 's risk-return preferences . |
| 3 | The strategy which controls the frequency , duration and destination is usually set up on a systems availability base rather than being controlled by the quantity of data to be transferred and its " design delay " costs . |
| 4 | Social groups are often deliberately set up for a purpose . |
| 5 | They were also set up as a way of avoiding off-site referral . |
| 6 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 7 | But Charlie also sets out on a series of scandalous liaisons and unfortunate marriages with very young girls . |
| 8 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend may like to know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State today set out in a speech the importance of improving and strengthening competition in a range of postal services . |
| 10 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 11 | My first attempt on these hills ended at about 1500 feet when two of us were simply blasted off , which I suppose served us right for even setting out on a morning dark and grey as a used Brillo pad . |
| 12 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 13 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |
| 14 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 17 | This will be so whether he takes the trouble to read them or not , and whether they are actually set out in a document in his possession , or ( subject to the question of the need to offer an oppportunity to inspect , which is discussed below ) merely incorporated into the contract by a reference in such a document . |