Example sentences of "set [adv prt] a [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 2 | In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . |
| 3 | Born in 1841 , Robert 's origins were bona fide proletarian ; he worked in a glass factory and as a house painter , taking evening classes in art which proved such a successful venture that he was able to set up a studio by 1869 and had developed a substantial reputation by the 1880s . |
| 4 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 5 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 6 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 7 | Some teachers and employers in London then set up a Compact in two London boroughs . |
| 8 | The Market Research Society has set up a panel of four experts , including two academics , to investigate . |
| 9 | The Tidy Britain Group , who are funded by the DoE , have set up a scheme of five different awards for beach cleanliness . |
| 10 | we have set up a network of 31 drug liaison officers , in 19 different countries , tracking the international drugs traffickers who threaten Britain with their trade . |
| 11 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 12 | That sets up a situation of two naming services and not providing NIS+ clients for SunOS . |
| 13 | Indeed , in 1976 the PLP set up a committee of eight backbenchers to study how consultation with the Labour Government could be improved . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State Kenneth Baker set up a committee in 1957 , charged with the task of examining A levels ( the Higginson Committee ) . |
| 15 | Aspdin set up a partnership in 1824 with a neighbour as ‘ patent Portland cement manufacturers ’ , operating from Leeds and Wakefield and later expanded to an agency at Liverpool . |
| 16 | He set up a list of twelve components of skill , including such items as ‘ mental effort ’ , ‘ dexterity ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , and ‘ decision making ’ , and a set of four broad levels of mechanisation . |
| 17 | Sir Robert Graham , angered by a spell of imprisonment from which he had escaped into the Highlands , set up a conspiracy with two Stewarts , one of them James 's uncle and the other his own domestic chamberlain . |
| 18 | Megarry V-C , in Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exports ) v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 set out a test of four elements which is most helpful for determining whether the information is too widely known to retain the necessary quality of confidence . |