Example sentences of "set [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had set down the candle . |
| 2 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 3 | In turn , similar financial disciplines and targets could be set down the line , ‘ rewarding and punishing individual operations according to risk performance ’ . |
| 4 | During Ministry 's set tonight the earth started flying , along with the bodies . |
| 5 | The blue top and bottom trims not only set off the looks of the tank , but also obviate the need for a layer of polystyrene under the tank . |
| 6 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean I 've set off the alarms ? |
| 8 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 9 | Her exhaust also set off the colliery 's underground fire alarm after simmering near the down-shaft ventilation screens ! |
| 10 | Though his yelling had not moved the stones it had set off the dogs and one against the other they barked and bayed , an unusual salute as he entered the bounds of the sheer-sided , heavy-wooded , spectacular wilderness . |
| 11 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 12 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 13 | The present writer , who in another district also watched him speak , promptly set aside the plan to sleep away from home that night . |
| 14 | Many people wish to plan their funerals in advance , and to know that they have set aside the money to pay for them : |
| 15 | Your intruder alarm must be set whenever the Home is left without a responsible person in attendance . |
| 16 | Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine . |
| 17 | Customs have set up the Dover Customs Yacht Team to deal with queries on yachts under temporary importation arrangements in an EC country on 31 December 1992 . |
| 18 | Having set up the Installation Directory and the LIFESPAN Manager account as described in Sections 1.1 and 1.2.1 , you are now ready to copy the distribution kit onto your VAX . |
| 19 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 20 | Simply set up the machine in minutes , cast on over the 100 needles and off you go — sweaters in yarns from Double Knitting to Chunky can quickly be made using the famous BOND Classic Knitting System on which the new Sweater Machine is based . |
| 21 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 22 | In the Joint Committee that was set up the conflict was , in Hanrott 's words , ‘ played cool ’ , but it was conflict nevertheless . |
| 23 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 24 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 25 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 26 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 27 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 28 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 29 | We have set up the institutions and everybody is joining them . |
| 30 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |