Example sentences of "set [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 2 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 3 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 4 | Set over a pan of simmering water until chocolate has melted . |
| 5 | set over the beak , |
| 6 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 7 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 8 | El Niño is apparently triggered by the warming of ocean currents in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific , which set off a pattern of weather bringing drought to many tropical areas , but heavier than normal rain to the western American seaboard . |
| 9 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 10 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 11 | An 1853 Supreme Court decision which set aside a conviction on the charge of ‘ taking forcible and unlawful possession of the product of the Complainant 's garden ’ may serve as an example . |
| 12 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
| 13 | They set aside a room for Howard to work in , when he 's not labouring outside with an axe or a scythe . |
| 14 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 15 | Some retailers set aside an area in the storeroom or warehouse as a ‘ goods received area ’ where goods are priced soon after delivery from the supplier . |
| 16 | set aside an amount of money or identified that we would need to spend an amount of money and perhaps we need to do that sooner . |
| 17 | However , such a transaction is valid as between the company and the other party to it , and the court may on the application of the company or the other party to the transaction , affirm , sever , or set aside the transaction on such terms as the court sees fit ( s. 322A(7)CA ) . |
| 18 | Accordingly , I allow the appeal and set aside the order . |
| 19 | On the defendant 's appeal , the Court of Appeal held that if the mother 's signature on the transfer was a forgery , the register could be rectified under section 82 of the Land Registration Act 1925not only against C. and D. but also against the building society , set aside the order for possession against the defendant and ordered a new trial to determine the facts regarding the execution of the transfer . |
| 20 | But set aside the location and the time , and even the fact that the story is built around a strike by workers on the Dakar-Niger railway line . |
| 21 | I would therefore allow this appeal , set aside the judge 's order and restore the order of the registrar . |
| 22 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 23 | On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank . |
| 24 | By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused . |
| 25 | Set aside the question of law , whether the corporation is guilty of a crime or legally responsible to compensate victims or their families . |
| 26 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 27 | I shall therefore allow the appeal , set aside the district judge 's order , restore the statutory demand and the bankruptcy petition , and remit the petition to the district judge for hearing by him . |
| 28 | The EAT set aside the tribunal 's finding of unfair dismissal and found that the employee was entitled to a redundancy payment . |
| 29 | Yesterday officers from the City of London police set up a roadblock on Lower Thames Street — a scene which will now be repeated throughout the country . |
| 30 | Police patrolled the streets and troops set up a road block and checked all vehicles entering or leaving . |