Example sentences of "who set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If we , the public , see ‘ profession ’ as more trustworthy than ‘ trade ’ , we help to institutionalise trust-worthiness as part of the licence we accord to those who set up as experts . |
2 | Unless we can get professional managers who are as good entrepreneurially as those who set up for themselves we shall have major problems ahead . |
3 | To this end we will be working closely with Music Aid , a group of volunteers from the music world who set up after the tragic Ethiopian famine in the mid nineteen eighties . |
4 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
5 | The company manufactured electrical components and suffered serious competition from ex-employees who set up in business themselves and poached the company 's customers . |
6 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
7 | And people who set out to be faithful do fall passionately in lust with other people . |
8 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
9 | No woman in her right mind would choose to be a single parent and the tiny minority who set out to be are , in my view , incredibly selfish , unimaginative and cruel . |
10 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
11 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
12 | Froissart in his Chronicles describes the probably schizophrenic Charles VI , who set out on a punitive expedition to Brittany , in spite of being ordered to rest by his doctors , who had evidently recognised the signs of an approaching attack . |
13 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
14 | Stewart Hulse , team leader of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team , has some harsh words for youth groups who set out onto the Lakeland Fells , determined to complete their objectives at all costs . |
15 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
16 | But I always think so many mums , dads and children who set off for work and school in the morning wo n't be coming back . ’ |
17 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
18 | It was a beautiful sunny day , if anything it would be too hot for the marathon runners who set off before the fun runners , fun walkers and fun pusher ! |