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 .
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