Example sentences of "set [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 2 | Where there is no further land for settlement and for people to set themselves up as independent farmers or pastoralists , there is an added reason for a land-controlling class to emerge , firstly because land hunger tends to differentiate a peasantry and secondly there is no alternative for those without enough land but to work for others . |
| 3 | When we asked all the branches in Environmental Services if they had anything we should know about and put into print for the next Environmental Issues , such as had they done anything exciting or out of the ordinary recently , Branch manager from Pest Control Sheffield , Henri Amiss was quick to point out that everything their branch did set them apart from other branches . |
| 4 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 5 | The groups of organisms described have certain special peculiarities that set them apart from all others , and once these features are recognized the group to which the fossil belongs can be confidently identified . |
| 6 | Whilst at one time the personal characteristics of children , and the circumstances in which they were received into care , set them apart from other children not admitted into care , the norms of family life for children inside and outside of public care could no longer be regarded as so different from each other . |
| 7 | Most organisers set them rigidly in straight rows without checking whether some other design might give everyone a better view and provide more working and movement space . |
| 8 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 9 | Thus we set ourselves apart from other beasts , carnivorous or not . |
| 10 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 11 | EVERY version of Educating Rita has ingredients that set it apart from all others . |
| 12 | Boyd 's ability to take a controversial subject and set it down into explicable proportions is tested to the full in this work and the way in which the line fell into the Great Central 's hands together with the relationship of Benjamin Piercy 's trustees provides the kind of issues that keeps historians in correspondence for years to come . |
| 13 | This has the effect that the bank will be unable to combine that account or set it off against any amounts owed to the bank by the SFA member firm and , in the event of the insolvency of the SFA member firm , the funds in the account will not pass to the liquidator but will remain subject to the trust in favour of the clients contributing the money . |
| 14 | And it strengthens woman-centred feminism 's influence within other discourses which set themselves apart from political concerns , like psychology . |
| 15 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 16 | The songs , stories and customs of the Claddagh dwellers had set them apart from other Galwegians , and the well-known Claddagh rings originated there . |
| 17 | Many others have set themselves up as private tutors , which is now permitted . |
| 18 | This interchange of visual ideas permeates every facet of the weaver 's art , and is one of the prime reasons why all oriental rugs , regardless of their compositional differences , possess an underlying character that sets them apart from hand-made rugs produced in other areas of the world . |
| 19 | A cup of Assam tea from the north east of India , has a strength of character and verve that sets it apart from ordinary teas . |