Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 'll be scent enough today , ’ she said as they set off again for the meet . |
| 2 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 3 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 4 | Some of that has to do with the guitar — we need material which is set up more for the guitar . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Harris said MPL was set up specifically for the contract . |
| 6 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 7 | Within the PC environment there are at least four common resolutions plus dozens of hybrids which mean that the fonts have to be set up correctly for the display . |
| 8 | This time the otter does n't attempt to eat the fish in the water , but sets out purposefully for the shore , to disappear out of my view below the bank . |
| 9 | A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day . |
| 10 | Pupils would then lob ping-pong balls in his direction and he would swing his tremendous member with the aim of knocking the balls into a waste-bin set up especially for the occasion . |