Example sentences of "set [adv] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 2 | The schoolboy team will set off at the end of the month . |
| 3 | Set up at a cost of half a million pounds contributed by CLD and the consortium , this is seen as a long-term project to introduce CLD staff , clients and other interested parties to open systems . |
| 4 | They set up at the foot of the first escalator . |
| 5 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 6 | It is possible to study for an honours degree in Italian , or for the variety of joint honours degrees set out at the beginning of the Arts section ( with another modern European language , for example , or with a number of other Arts subjects , or with Business Studies ) , and Italian may also be taken as a major or minor part of the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 7 | A marriage contracted by a person so insane at the time as not to appreciate the nature of the obligations of the married state may be set aside at the suit of either party . |
| 8 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 9 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 10 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 11 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 12 | It will be set up at the beginning of 1991 . |
| 13 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 14 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 15 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 16 | Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall . |
| 17 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 18 | And we 've got ta , wha what we 'll do we 'll get those set up at the sort of the appropriate working temperatures , and working humidity and then we will have to deal with people on an individual basis , if basically , they 're uncomfortable because of draft or whatever it might be . |
| 19 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |
| 20 | In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover . |
| 21 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 22 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 23 | The requirement to assess these issues at an early stage and to confirm the special circumstances that exist by obtaining the approval of three partners other than the lead partner is set out at the beginning of this section . |
| 24 | In each course the method of assessment is set out at the beginning of the session . |
| 25 | His sense of the delicate interrelation between reading , meditation and prayer is set out at the beginning of the chapter on contemplation : Here meditation has a mediating function : a process in which insight is received like a gift , much as the process of analysing a poem mysteriously yields a new integrated perception of its whole meaning which transcends the conscious process of study . |
| 26 | These circumstances are set out at the top of the Application Form . |
| 27 | ( In fact , sets right at the top of this range were only rarely included in the testing programme . ) |
| 28 | We did n't even realize that they organized their labour collectively , until Panic Buying ( a great '70s pastime , Panic Buying — of salt , sugar and so on ) set in at the beginning of November . |
| 29 | Melanie pictured the safe , made of very black metal , set squarely at the end of the bed where he could see it all the time , in the strange bedroom where he slept with Aunt Margaret in a bed that must sag deeply on his side , since he was so heavy and she was no weight at all . |
| 30 | This year his television career set off at a run with Aah Sean , a one hour documentary which offered a cock-eyed perspective on his Dublin youth . |