Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 2 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 3 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
| 4 | The amount set aside for capital injections into state companies rose to F5,600 million . |
| 5 | His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’ |
| 6 | In the shadow of the gigantic cooling towers of Thorpe Marsh , North Eastern Region 's 1000 MW Coal-fired Power Station , is an exciting area set aside for wildlife . |
| 7 | Although a lot of space may not be available , a small area set aside for dining is always useful . |
| 8 | Some Christian Democrat politicians are reportedly involved in a racket in which cash set aside by parliament for earthquake victims in Irpinia was misappropriated . |
| 9 | It has dedicated its Canadian historical collection to one of the art world 's more radical attempts to engage the spectator : one room mimics a nineteenth-century salon , with scores of paintings crammed one above the other to the advantage of none ; another gallery , devoted to the famed Group of Seven , contains a pew-like bench set directly in front of Tom Thomson 's ‘ West Wind ’ ( a national icon ) and two landscapes by Lauren Harris , rigged with telephones providing a soundtrack on the artists . |
| 10 | This he could do by granting a Discharge in the form set forth in Schedule B to the Act or in a similar form . |
| 11 | In September my father set off for Fontanellato to find somewhere for us to live , just as the teacher from the South had done . |
| 12 | Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer . |
| 13 | ‘ That fateful day he set off for work and their lives changed forever is etched on Wyn 's memory . |
| 14 | ‘ They were always holding hands and he kissed her goodbye every day as she set off for work . ’ |
| 15 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 16 | But I always think so many mums , dads and children who set off for work and school in the morning wo n't be coming back . ’ |
| 17 | The cast and crew set off for Tahiti . |
| 18 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 19 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 20 | She turned to her right and set off for home , all thought and feeling evacuated along with her energy and her sweat , in touch only with the irregular paving-stones , the light-rays interrupting the pink-grey clouds , the number-plates of cars , the lines on the faces that passed her , the name of the day , its date . |
| 21 | They got their rods and landing nets together and set off for home . |
| 22 | He shivered a little as he set off for home . |
| 23 | Her conscience at peace , Julia set off for dinner in a mood to enjoy herself . |
| 24 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 25 | The top is of fairly wide-grained European spruce , and the back and sides are Honduras mahogany with the maker 's distinctively pale , honey-coloured lacquer , set off with maple binding on all edges . |
| 26 | On 17 June Gould set off with Sturt across the Mount Lofty range towards the Murray River . |
| 27 | Aromatic thom yum hed ( £4.10 ) is a piquant hot and sour mushroom soup set off with lemon grass . |
| 28 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 29 | They mounted the white dune and set off towards town square and church , past a few white cottages . |
| 30 | It was soon followed by a pressing invitation from the new king to return to England , and Anselm set off without delay . |