Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day was held for customers and staff who in groups of three , set off for an 18-hole Stableford competition ( I 'm told this will mean something to golfers ! ) |
| 2 | DURING my time in Germany ( 1984-88 ) the British Ambassadors in Bonn and East Berlin would twice a year set off on an official tour , once in his territory and once in mine , to gather impressions about the relationship between the two parts of the divided German nation and how it might develop . |
| 3 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
| 4 | Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual . |
| 5 | The sky was cloudy when Giles set off after an early breakfast . |
| 6 | I am having trouble with my 3′ community tank , set up with an undergravel filter and two powerheads . |
| 7 | As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound . |
| 8 | Earlier , on April 11 , the UN Council for Namibia , set up as an alternative to South Africa 's illegal rule , holding its first meeting on Namibian soil , voted to dissolve itself and to hand over its assets to the government . |
| 9 | He also served on the advisory council set up under an order in council of 28 July 1915 , for the ‘ organization and development of scientific and industrial research ’ . |
| 10 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
| 11 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |
| 12 | Flavia set out on an aimless walk . |
| 13 | On July 18 the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister , Shaikh Sabah al Ahmed al Jabir as Sabah , set out on an emergency tour of Kuwait 's five Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) partners ( Bahrain , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the UAE ) . |
| 14 | He set out with an army across the Border . |
| 15 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 16 | This particular initiative in community education , although building on a period of active community involvement , set out at an early stage to involve local residents in controlling the educational programme and establishing a structure for participation which , it was hoped , would avoid the sort of elitism which beset the WEA . |
| 17 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |