Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] [noun] " 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 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Police patrolled the streets and troops set up a road block and checked all vehicles entering or leaving . |
| 14 | Set up a company and get the Council to privatize collection . ’ |
| 15 | Scattered through the policy review are proposals to : Drastically alter the status and organisation of the Department of Trade and Industry ; Create two departments — a Department of Consumer Affairs , and a Department for Legal Administration ; Create a Department of Environmental Protection within the existing Department of the Environment ; Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies ; Set up a Women 's Ministry . |
| 16 | Set up a help line to deal with exceptional queries relating to the Code and other associated issues referred through Institutions or directly . |
| 17 | Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech . |
| 18 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 19 | set up a subsidy programme for farmers that want to convert to organic methods |
| 20 | Foucault 's genealogy means that by asking a question , posing a problem , you set up a generality against which you constitute events and arrange them in a series . |
| 21 | In Belfast from 1931 to 1938 a total of 800 twice-weekly boxing-programmes were put on by ‘ Ma Copley ’ , who first organized fights in the open air and then set up a boxing hall at Chapel Fields . |
| 22 | Impatient of the slow progress made through the ‘ official channels ’ local lawyers and community workers set up a law centre in North Kensington in 1970 . |
| 23 | In Gambia in the mid '80's , a number of well-known aid agencies and charities set up a rice production project . |
| 24 | Let's stick to this concept , I , I welcome it , I think it shows good thinking on the part of our officers and I would like to suggest that er , I take er , a back seat on this one , and I , I , I 'd feel probably , set up a sub-committee , I would think four or five is ample , and I would like to propose that Malcolm chairs this meeting , so that we have a fresh brain and a younger brain , looking at the future 's problems . |
| 25 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 26 | Requirement : Set up a cost statement to show the minimum tender price . |
| 27 | Firefighters set up a water curtain to contain the smoke and fumes . |
| 28 | set up a vision group to work on the direction of future ecumenical interaction in communication ; |
| 29 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 30 | They set up a satellite link with Tokyo and announced that they would charge only 5 per cent buyer 's premium instead of the now customary 10 per cent . |