Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 2 | But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) . |
| 3 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 4 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 5 | To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria . |
| 6 | Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’ |
| 7 | These principles expand upon the basic standards set down in the rules of Conduct and indicate the standards which members should seek to achieve in the interests of good practice . |
| 8 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 9 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 10 | ANGRY building bosses set off in a ‘ battle bus ’ yesterday — to confront Ministers at the Tory conference and demand action . |
| 11 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
| 12 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 13 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 14 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 15 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 16 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |
| 17 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 18 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 19 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 20 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 21 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 22 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 23 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 24 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 25 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 26 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 27 | OsO4 vapour is highly toxic and this manipulation is best undertaken by incubating embryos in small drops of 0504 under oil in plastic Petri dishes ( set up in a fume cupboard ) . |
| 28 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |
| 29 | Roadblocks set up in every town and particularly in and around Belfast to thwart IRA bomb attacks have been lifted . |
| 30 | Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) chronicles the breakdown of a community of nuns set up in the Himalayas , riven by inner conflicts and pulled apart by the intrusion of romantic figures from outside . |