Example sentences of "to set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 2 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 3 | A few people have tried to set up as independent ironers but we seem to be reluctant to pay someone £4 an hour to iron . |
| 4 | Also issued on Oct. 26 , a decree granted foreign investors ( individual or corporate ) the right to set up on Soviet soil a 100 per cent foreign-owned enterprise , or to buy a shareholding in existing Soviet enterprises . |
| 5 | Small firms have traditionally found it difficult to set up in rural areas , despite the need for job creation and economic diversification , and this Circular is designed to help them by , for example , relaxing the conditions over the re-use of redundant agricultural buildings . |
| 6 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 7 | And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas . |
| 8 | But if not that , then many critics would like to be dictators of literature , to regulate the past , and to set out with quiet authority the future direction of the art . |
| 9 | For some years schemes have existed to encourage teachers to set out like Victorian missionaries to explore the strange and wild territory of industry and to convert its leaders to an acceptance of the virtues of education . |
| 10 | Lord Roskill 's comment on Reg. v. Lawrence is , however , not the only difficulty presented by his speech in Reg. v. Morris , but before I consider other difficulties it is necessary to set out in short form the facts of the two cases considered in that speech . |
| 11 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 12 | But there are two reasons why it is advisable to set out in full the reasons and facts upon which the appeal is based . |