Example sentences of "set [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
2 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
3 | The verdicts were set aside on 25 December by means of a law passed on 23 December empowering the President to quash any decision of the Special Court . |
4 | Research shows that ‘ a very substantial ’ market exists for the product — the first to be launched by Royal Bank Insurance Consultants since it was set up on 1 October 1991 . |
5 | The SPSG was set up on 1 September 1986 to promote studies related to science policy in the United Kingdom . |
6 | This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II . |
7 | The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman . |
8 | A HOTLINE for people worried about relatives on the Airbus has been set up on 071 270 4112 ( office hours ) and 071 839 1010 ( other times ) . |
9 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
10 | Neighbourhood houses could soon be set up on many housing estates in Darlington , Coun Bill Dixon said . |
11 | A special recruitment helpline has been set up on 0244 318990 . |
12 | Job shops have been set up on both sites , manned by trained staff . |
13 | 1.1 The National Curriculum English Working Group was set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study , and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
14 | The National Curriculum English Working Group was formally set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
15 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
16 | On Oct. 12 , 1989 , a Polish Socialist Party of Labour ( PSPP ) was set up on social democratic principles . |
17 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
18 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
19 | The exhibition is set out on three floors , each concerned with a different aspect of Viking culture . |