Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A transition between the fully closed and fully open current levels occurred when the current crossed a threshold set halfway between these two states . |
| 2 | The cash would come from the pool of money set aside for such incidents . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The devaluation debate also needs careful examination before Labour or Livingstone set off down another dead end . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | He changed his mind , and set off in another right direction , but this offered only more hills . |
| 12 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 13 | Earlier this year the bank replaced this system with Micro Control in a lightning changeover : ‘ The mainframe was inflexible , so the bank already had a PC database set up for all its rules . ’ |
| 14 | They would use this time to seek a university job , helped by a coordinating body , KAI , set up for this purpose . |
| 15 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 16 | Such was the family interest in the native tank that the tropical marine aquarium was dismantled and set up as another native environment . |
| 17 | Also he s been involved in the England set up to some degree for a number of years , and was an official ‘ spy ’ or scout for England during the last 2 world cups ( time on his hands this time around ! ) . |
| 18 | From now on , every rehearsal should be arranged and set up in this way , so that your band will sound the same every time you rehearse . |
| 19 | After the war in 1920 , the National Bus Company set up in some strength and began to run various routes . |
| 20 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 21 | Then there is a section which deals with the citation of authority by the parties , whether a welfare report has been considered , and the pro forma is dealing with cases where specifically the welfare check list has to be considered and the suggestion is made that each of the considerations under section 1(3) ( a ) to ( g ) are set out individually and the judgment or the findings of fact set out under each paragraph . |
| 22 | Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing . |
| 23 | ‘ It would be difficult to invent a more complicated system for taxing the self-employed even if one set out with that very objective , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 24 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 25 | 4.6 The Company undertakes , notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Clause , to purchase in each year of the currency of this Agreement not less than the minimum amount of the Products ( by value ) set out for that year in Schedule 4 hereto . |
| 26 | The Gracious Speech is that annual event when our Queen and her Government set out for this Parliament those national and international policies that are in the best interests of the United Kingdom , and only the United Kingdom , whether they relate to domestic legislation , to our defence commitments or to those foreign policy objectives which , to quote my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary , protect and promote the British interest . |
| 27 | But Harry Taylor 's group set out without any Oxygen . |
| 28 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman 's question was as excessively lengthy as the price increases under Labour , with the nationalised industry in the 1970s , were excessively great — far greater than any under the regulatory regime set out by this Government . |
| 30 | In 1954 he published Archaeology from the Earth , an instruction book on field archaeology ; many modern excavation techniques have their origins in the principles that Wheeler set out in that book . |