Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 2 | Pursuant to the Practice Direction ( Transfer of Action ) [ 1991 ] WLR 643 ( see para 1.35 ) , every action set down under automatic directions will be examined within seven days by a master to determine whether a transfer should be considered . |
| 3 | The typical North memo , according to General Galvin , implied that ‘ a whole lot more is going to happen that was really intended to happen in there ’ ; a colleague said they were North 's equivalent of a Potemkin Village , set down in unreal Washington . |
| 4 | She closed her tired , bloodshot eyes and saw herself again as a young woman , buxom and pregnant , set down in wild bush country , her only asset a husband as young and as strong as herself . |
| 5 | You 've heard before that Leeds works within the rules of the framework set down by regional planning guidance , and that makes very and the main stream of that guidance is the revitalization of our inner areas . |
| 6 | It said that far too many teachers had the perception that unless they followed the good practice set down by local authority advisers , their career prospects in the city would be blighted . |
| 7 | A transition between the fully closed and fully open current levels occurred when the current crossed a threshold set halfway between these two states . |
| 8 | The rot set in during 1973 . |
| 9 | There was nobody who remembered the days of churches where people assembled for religious ceremonies , but they resented the idea of a TOM replacing the function of the antique building set aside for sacred ceremonies . |
| 10 | The cash would come from the pool of money set aside for such incidents . |
| 11 | Nearby there is an amusement arcade , an attractive boating lake , and a large area set aside for passive recreation which includes a viewing mound providing superb views of the North Wales coastal area . |
| 12 | His proposed extension would also include an area set aside for temporary exhibitions covering some 1,600 square metres , compared with less than half that at present — a further net increase of 850 square metres . |
| 13 | He was buried in the graveyard at St Luke 's Church , Whyteleafe , in Airmen 's Corner , a plot set aside for those who served at the nearby Kenley base and at Croydon . |
| 14 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 15 | IBM said that the cost of the actions will be approximately $2,100m net , on top of the $2,100m that it will take to cover the cost of the voluntary redundancies , the $4,200m total to be offset by adoption of Financial Accounting Standard 109(a) , which will allow the company to write back to the profit and loss account about $1,900m in money set aside for deferred taxes . |
| 16 | But most students will spend much of their time working in the college library , study centre or some other room set aside for quiet study ( i.e. not the refectory or student union ) . |
| 17 | Sometimes we will wish to use the add instruction without modification by the index register , so we need an extra bit set aside in all such instructions , to specify whether or not the modification of the operand field by means of the index register is to take place . |
| 18 | Lucretius ( 95–55 B.C. ) set forth at great length the theory of the atomic nature of matter which had been propounded earlier by Democritus ( 460–370 B.C. ) . |
| 19 | If any such event referred to in this Sub-Clause shall occur , termination shall become effective forthwith or on the date set forth in such notice . |
| 20 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 21 | In January 1968 Crawford and his family , which now included baby Lucy , set off for six months in Hollywood . |
| 22 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 23 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 24 | She looked round the deep red walls of the dining room , set off with black paintwork . |
| 25 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 26 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 27 | The devaluation debate also needs careful examination before Labour or Livingstone set off down another dead end . |
| 28 | Joy and Alan set off on one of their marathon walks , this time a coast-to-coast sponsored effort to raise money for our local church , one of the oldest in North Wales . |
| 29 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 30 | Courtesy of their arrangements with Air New Zealand , ‘ Pooler ’ set off on 10th July for the land of the ruck and the long white cloud . |