Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIXTH formers are perfecting their accents as they set off for work in the French town of Dunkirk . |
| 2 | With the Frankish Church 's new emphasis on godparental obligations , such a reinforcing of a biological kin-tie by a spiritual one became an adroit response to the dangers set out by Charlemagne in the 806 division-project . |
| 3 | THIS is a bit hard to understand but some audacious young men from Newcastle have set off for Europe in the company of Ermentrude the Cow from The Magic Roundabout . |
| 4 | I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça . |
| 5 | The rate could decrease further this year as more than 100 local safety schemes are set up along roads in the region . |
| 6 | In this capacity , it is claimed , he was the main liaison officer with the secret anti-communist underground unit , P-26 , set up by right-wingers in the Swiss army and government . |
| 7 | When the present archival system was set up in Whitehall in the 1950s , it was envisaged that the person responsible for records work in departments , the departmental records officer ( DRO ) , would be a person of some standing . |
| 8 | All the crop management methods are set out for growers in a document compiled by JS with the help of experts from all over the world . |
| 9 | The respective rights and duties of the landlord and tenant , e.g. the duty to maintain and repair , are set out in covenants in the lease . |
| 10 | Their duties and responsibilities were set out in detail in the Public Assistance Order of 1930 : |
| 11 | However , the process had been set back by delays in the assembly programme [ see p. 38706 ] . |
| 12 | An hour 's peaceful plodding , setting out from stables in the village of Horner , is just one of the off-site activities . |
| 13 | He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history . |
| 14 | Her conscience at peace , Julia set off for dinner in a mood to enjoy herself . |
| 15 | So , excited , and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged , she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville . |
| 16 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 17 | After a fruitless meeting set up at Jeddah in the hope of reconciling their differences and some display of nervousness by the oil market , Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait on 2 August , occupying the capital and prompting the Amir , Shaikh Jaber , to seek refuge in Saudi Arabia . |
| 18 | It is said to be thinking of appointing a special envoy to the interim government set up in February in the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 19 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 20 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 21 | Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow . |
| 22 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 23 | Gardening owed much to these cooperative captains ; the two mentioned above faithfully observed Miller 's directions for the transport of plants , set out at length in the Dictionary . |