Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 2 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 3 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
| 4 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 5 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 6 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 7 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 8 | The scene is the Ritz Club , the prototype of a sophisticated Thirties nightclub in dazzling primary colours set off by a sleek black bar . |
| 9 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 11 | With a crew which included seven Fairbridge trainees from Strathclyde and East Lothian , Spirit of Scotland was one of the scores of sailing ships which set out on the 1993 Tall Ships Race when the starting cannon fired at Newcastle . |
| 12 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 13 | If Britain follows the policies and approaches set out by the right hon. Gentleman , it will be in the second division in the Community . |
| 14 | The Further and Higher Education Bill implements policies set out in the two White Papers : Education and training for the twenty-first century and Higher education : A new framework . |
| 15 | Some have suggested that the time of death should be postdated to the ninth century , arguing that while the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ) saw a last futile effort to revive a state-run fiscal system , rigor mortis finally set in with the new barbarian onslaughts of Vikings and Saracens . |
| 16 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 17 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |
| 18 | turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends . |
| 19 | That a similar system be set up for the archival negative collections which would be rehoused within the proposed new photographic suite . |
| 20 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 21 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 22 | The company is being set up as a 50:50 joint venture with the French educational publisher Magnard , which has started to move into general trade publishing with its recent acquisitions of the New Age publisher Dervy and the children 's and general academic imprint Vuibert . |
| 23 | The Action Teams have been deliberately set up with a wide brief so that they can adapt to local needs without having to conform to a rigid pattern . |
| 24 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 25 | This week Andrew Large , the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , published a report that acknowledged the defects in the regulatory regime set up by the 1986 Financial Services Act . |
| 26 | The Conservatives inherited the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service set up by the preceding Labour government in 1976 ( Cmnd 7615 ) . |
| 27 | To this end the Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group was set up by the American National Standards Institution in 1990 and will report back sometime this year with recommendations that will eventually find their way into the next version of ANSI Cobol around 1997 . |
| 28 | The NF-Environnement label has been set up by the National Consultative Committee for " Ecoproduct " Labelling , under chairmanship of MP Alain Brune . |
| 29 | Nothing was omitted , no aspect of her being was not party to this miraculous moment of ultimate sharing , and in the final vibration of the after-shock set up by the last incredible convulsion of ecstasy , she heard Luke gasping her name and understood that she did n't hate him and never had . |
| 30 | In this article , Veronica Hanson describes a scheme that was set up by the Welsh Pre-school Playgroups Association ( PPA ) to encourage the integration into local playgroups of children who experience difficulties in learning . |