Example sentences of "to set up [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I met a boy in his mid-twenties , from Kentucky , who had come to New York to set up as a dentist . |
2 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
3 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
4 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
5 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
6 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
7 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
8 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
9 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
10 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
11 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |