Example sentences of "a [noun sg] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 2 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 3 | copy prepared for a compositor setting out in detail all the typesetting instructions . |
| 4 | An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle . |
| 5 | ‘ In my observation , a body set up by government is more likely to face pressure than one established by an industry . ’ |
| 6 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 7 | I explained about the shop ; I thought he might give me a loan to set up in business again … . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | More than 10 years passed before a reporter at the Capital Times of Madison discovered that Strickland , in mid-1971 , had become a stockholder and officer in a corporation set up by Heber to sell the very techniques of educational intervention that Strickland credited in his article . |
| 10 | if we suppose a traveller to set out from Venice on March 1 , 1245 , the first day of the Venetian year , he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence ; and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa , the year 1246 would already have begun there . |
| 11 | A report by a commission set up by President Boris Yeltsin reveals the extent of dumping of nuclear materials at sea by Russia and the former Soviet Union [ see ED 69 ] . |
| 12 | The more radical plan was the work of Presidential Council member Stanislav Shatalin and a commission set up by USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin [ ibid . ] . |
| 13 | A gate set up by Tom Poole at the bottom of the Lime Street orchard led directly into his own garden , a small secluded area which lay at some distance behind Poole 's house in Castle Street and which –contained , beneath the shelter of a lime-tree , a jasmine-covered arbour . |
| 14 | He won a competition set up in memory of Catherine Kenyon . |
| 15 | THE proceeds of a fund set up in memory of a former MP will be used to maintain mountain footpaths in the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 16 | Schools will be able to calculate their physical capacity using a form set out in Annex A to DES Circular 11/88 . |
| 17 | It was described in a TReeS pamphlet as ‘ a project set up by Madre de Dios 's indigenous people which aims to combine the best of modern and traditional approaches to health-care , in order to maintain acceptable standards of health throughout the region 's native forest communities ’ . |
| 18 | In the cellar are six Skeletons manacled around a half-collapsed wooden table piled high with the desiccated and thoroughly foul remains of a meal set out on silver serving plates ( worth 5 GCs in total ) . |
| 19 | Colour analyst/hairdresser Mrs Myra Addison and photographer Mrs Ann Simmons together make up Beautiful Images , a venture set up in Darlington 15 months ago : and they came out tops with stunning portraits in competitions organised by the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Master Photographers ' Association . |
| 20 | In the meantime Mogul had been sold to Ennex International ( a company set up by Northgate ) which denied all responsibility for the tailings lake . |
| 21 | A more personal service is offered by a company set up by Mr David Smith in Perth . |
| 22 | Tips on how to tackle violence , car thefts and house-breaking , for example , are to be published in a newsletter set up by Lothian and Borders Police yesterday . |
| 23 | I have however found it difficult to subscribe to the opinion preferred by the majority of your Lordships that the appeal should be dismissed because the decision of a visitor is not susceptible to judicial review for an error of law , and had prepared a judgment setting out in summary my reasons for this difficulty . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's on Stretch Records , which is a label set up by Chick Corea , and distributed in Europe by BMG . |
| 25 | He based his case on the EAT 's decision in Laughton v Bapp Industrial Supplies Ltd [ 1986 ] IRLR 245 , which said that an employee did not breach his duty of loyalty merely by indicating an intention to set up in competition with the employer in the future . |
| 26 | ‘ Is it not remarkable , ’ she said , her pretty brows arched in bewilderment , ‘ that an organisation set up in support of the family is thereby assumed to be against the welfare state ? |
| 27 | From the mid-1330s onwards scarcely a year passed without the issue of writs requesting archbishops and bishops to order prayers in every parish for the king ; additionally , whenever an army set off on campaign — whether against Scotland or to the continent — prayers and processions were ordered , and each victory ( Berwick , Sluys , Crécy , Poitiers , Najera ) and even the capture of King John in 1356 was at once announced and celebrated with parish prayers . |