Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company .
2 Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer .
3 He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said .
4 Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes .
5 Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead .
6 ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist .
7 For Bürger ( 1984 , p. 48 ) it is specifically ‘ bourgeois art ’ that sets itself up as an autonomous realm .
8 Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over .
9 Ron Rooney objects to Dr Mitchell setting himself up as a moral censor ( Chem .
10 It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers .
11 The unconscious seems involved in a deep way , in part due to their setting themselves up as a Chosen People of God the Father .
12 Leftwich moved to London and set himself up as a wholesale confectioner , with outlets in Fleet Street and Kingston upon Thames .
13 He set himself up as a one-man cult .
14 So , with one LP , Morrissey set himself up as the new Tom Robinson ?
15 He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later .
16 On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) .
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