Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's policy paper contained provisions for state-aided settlement schemes to encourage black farmers to set up on 485,000 hectares of government land . |
| 2 | The Plaintiff must set down within six months of close of pleadings ; if no request is made within 15 months , the action is automatically struck out . |
| 3 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 4 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 5 | The hotelier can set up for any number of different plans , for example , golf weekends , leisure breaks , family rates , and so forth |
| 6 | From the end of the seventeenth century , turnpike trusts set up under private acts of parliament began to appear . |
| 7 | Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed . |
| 8 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 9 | The man who , finding the doors of his grandfather 's house wide open and the jade missing from the cabinet , had set off in hot pursuit of her . |
| 10 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 11 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 12 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 13 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 14 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 15 | The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ . |
| 16 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 17 | A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry . |
| 18 | Illegal arms and bomb factories have been set up in many parts of northern India to fuel the conflicts . |
| 19 | This example page , which is also set out at one second of runtime per line , shows that the original sync sound transfers continue without a break , but additional background sound ( voices ) is to be faded in at the beginning of shot 18 . |
| 20 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 21 | There is a traditional picture of the genesis of BT whose main lines depend , substantially , not on any direct evidence , but on the later recollections of Nietzsche 's sister , which were first set out in one volume of a biography of her brother published in 1897 . |
| 22 | Guidance notes on fees for MAS work are set out in various sections of this MAS Practice Guide as follows : |
| 23 | The principles of corporate ownership are set out in multi-lingual editions of our detailed brochure available on request . |
| 24 | Local authorities can do nothing that is not expressly set out in some Act of Parliament . |
| 25 | These exhibits were mostly just single figures , not set out in any kind of tableau , but isolated in their stage clothes with just a name plate for company . |
| 26 | He sets out with three members of the Club , Tupman , Snodgrass , and Winkle , to observe the world and record their adventures . |
| 27 | Competitors started at staggered times but with the leaders all setting off within three minutes of each other , the competition benefited from an added edge . |
| 28 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 29 | Under the Income and Corporation Taxes Act ( TA ) 1988 , s343 , if certain conditions are satisfied , the tax losses of a trade can be transferred to a new company and set off against future profits of the same trade if conducted by the receiving company . |
| 30 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |