Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 2 | The literature review will be set in to a general policy context of recent developments in the UK vocational training field . |
| 3 | The sound of a glass being set down on a table , then a door closing . |
| 4 | For , all in the instant of his book and glass being set down on a nearby table ‘ You 're afraid of me , Fabia ? ’ he demanded to know in a straightforward , no nonsense manner . |
| 5 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |
| 6 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 7 | Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement . |
| 8 | The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside . |
| 9 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 10 | She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees . |
| 11 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 12 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 13 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 14 | The balance on a client account may not be set off against a sum owed to LCH on any other kind of account . |
| 15 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 16 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 17 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 18 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 19 | Here Alice and Philip exchanged , with their eyes , feelings about Jim ; exactly as people looked but did not speak , apprehensions over Faye — as if something there was too dangerous for words , or at least volatile , to be set off like a risky electronics device by an injudicious combination of sounds . |
| 20 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 23 | The Compass System is set up on a pivot enclosed in a liquid filled ( kerosene ) chamber . |
| 24 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 25 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 28 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 29 | With no back-up flap system the aeroplane is set up for a slightly flatter flapless approach at 130 knots . |
| 30 | Social groups are often deliberately set up for a purpose . |