Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The scene is the Ritz Club , the prototype of a sophisticated Thirties nightclub in dazzling primary colours set off by a sleek black bar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rationale underlying the Land Commission Act was set out in a 1965 white paper : |
| 8 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 9 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 10 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 11 | This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level , Lagan College , in 1981 . |
| 12 | Its founders were clinging to the wreckage , not setting out on a brave new voyage . |
| 13 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 14 | In the following year the Beaux-Arts style emerged at its most majestic in Washington , DC , containing some of the most powerful , overpowering indeed , spaces of any station , and set off in a great park-like setting . |
| 15 | Dressed as she was in a simple dark green dress , set off by a bright red scarf , she caused a momentary pause in several conversations . |
| 16 | In 1917 Griffiths set up as a consulting chemical engineer in the City of London , a career which he pursued with increasing success until his death . |
| 17 | Of course , in those days the mistress was generally kept by her lover , set up in a cosy little love-nest somewhere , her accounts settled with no questions asked … |
| 18 | But Mr Clinton , 46 , was yesterday taking no chances and set out on a final round-the-clock trek to nine states before heading home today to cast his own vote . |