Example sentences of "set [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
2 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
3 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
4 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
5 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
6 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
7 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
8 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
9 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
10 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
11 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
12 | She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip which would set everything down on a matter-of-fact level and make her meaning plain , but quips were beyond her . |
13 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
14 | Oh yes , I was assuming that erm a I do , I did n't really set it out as a formal agenda just as a |
15 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
16 | I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table . |
17 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
18 | Then he lifted his other foot from the ground and set it firmly on the rough stone surface too . |
19 | Toby had reappeared with the tray , and set it down on a small marble table , before Jackson was aware of his presence . |
20 | ‘ I watch everything I can because I feel this is a tie that could set us up for a good run in Europe , ’ added Creaney . |
21 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
22 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
23 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
24 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
25 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
26 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
27 | For Bürger ( 1984 , p. 48 ) it is specifically ‘ bourgeois art ’ that sets itself up as an autonomous realm . |
28 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
29 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
30 | Not much flavour , but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack . |