Example sentences of "set [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 2 | In January 1968 Crawford and his family , which now included baby Lucy , set off for six months in Hollywood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are three main ways you can do this ; you can continue at school , have a home tutor , or attend a special unit or project set up for pregnant school-girls and school-age mothers . |
| 6 | The police Holmes computor system , set up for major crime investigations , is being used to collate information from across Britain . |
| 7 | She told a London press conference that a raft of decisions had been announced and a tight timetable set up for future reforms , designed to prevent the spiral of decline predicted in the report if action were not taken . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | A DISABLED Courtaulds employee somewhere in the world will benefit from a fund set up for tragic computer expert . |
| 11 | They would use this time to seek a university job , helped by a coordinating body , KAI , set up for this purpose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These College regulations , based closely on those in the French veterinary schools , although reduced in number and somewhat ameliorated , set out for resident pupils a pretty strictly regimented way of life , against which they occasionally rebelled . |
| 14 | 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 . |