Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such policies would involve government intervention to provide better training and job information to reduce occupational immobility , and grants to firms to set up in areas of high unemployment to reduce regional imbalances . |
| 2 | Crops are harvested almost without sweat , boats set off on journeys with full sails , celebrations are carried off with style and decorum . |
| 3 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 4 | Model conversations set out in tapescripts for audio cassettes for supplementary exercises on note taking from telephone conversations , and for revision . |
| 5 | The knocker boys usually set off in groups of three or four , targeting a particular area that is likely to throw up worthwhile items . |
| 6 | It was set up with funds from leading venture capitalists Schroders , Apax and 3i . |
| 7 | The same author is of the opinion that it is much more likely that lateral shear is set up by differences in frictional drag on the wind between the sand of the dunes and the firm floors of the swales between . |
| 8 | The ‘ Schools tor Mothers ’ and ‘ Babies ’ Welcomes ' , set up by volunteers from 1908 onwards , set out to teach women to breast feed their children , so as to avoid the problem of contaminated milk and unhygienic feeding bottles ; to follow a strict feeding schedule ; not to allow dummies ; not to use inflammable flannelette clothing and not to permit the infant to sleep with its parents for fear of suffocating . |
| 9 | Preparation of financial statements by companies registered in the UK is guided by the Generally Accepted Accounting Practice ( GAAP ) which is set Out in Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and in Statements of Recommended Practice ( SORPs ) . |
| 10 | A steel frame , bolted together , which can be finished in a matter of months , before the Armenian winter sets in with temperatures of 40 degrees below freezing , it 's the brainchild of a school consultancy from Gloucester , but it 's taken agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher at today 's Downing Street talks to make it happen . |
| 11 | This end of Waldron had been quite a town once , the big-money boys setting up in mansions of twenty and more rooms . |
| 12 | Workers are more limited to particular geographical locations , and workers ' organizations can be completely destroyed or set back for years by unsuccessful struggles such as long running strikes or ( still more ) a general strike . |