Example sentences of "set [adv] the [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 the beak , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Accordingly , I allow the appeal and set aside the order . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I would therefore allow this appeal , set aside the judge 's order and restore the order of the registrar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Set aside the question of law , whether the corporation is guilty of a crime or legally responsible to compensate victims or their families . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The EAT set aside the tribunal 's finding of unfair dismissal and found that the employee was entitled to a redundancy payment . |
| 19 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 20 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 21 | Set up the equipment we will need , |
| 22 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 25 | The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 . |
| 26 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 27 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 28 | If you set up the water to the right parameters , there is no reason why you should no be able to keep this species successfully . |
| 29 | Now you might that will get us on T V and it it is also self financing as well in as much as you set up the promotion , the T V companies but it off you . |
| 30 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |