Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 2 | One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management . |
| 3 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 4 | Mr Clark continued : ‘ Now set out in a most scholarly book of some 700 pages , it is probably the important revisionist text to be published since the war . |
| 5 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 6 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 7 | Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act . |
| 8 | This is set up in a very similar way to above , but the advantage of using continuous stationery , is that only the sections for the height of the design will need to be joined together , because we can print the width sections as one continuous piece of paper . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , much of what I have said about the writing of straightforward mystery stories applies just as much to inverted stories , the books that seemingly set out on an exactly opposite course . |
| 10 | It is set out in a legally binding protocol which forms an integral part of the treaty . |
| 11 | Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge ? |