Example sentences of "to set [adv prt] a separate [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
2 | Xanana Gusmao , a former resistance leader in East Timor , was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court for , among several charges , trying to set up a separate state . |
3 | In the north west the Somali National Movement ( ‘ S.N.M. ’ ) attempted to set up a separate state . |
4 | Mace declined to comment , other than to say that ‘ we are in the process of trying to figure out how to set up a separate company . ’ |
5 | Mace declined to comment other than to say that ‘ we are in the process of trying to figure out how to set up a separate company . ’ |
6 | I then decided to set up a separate tank for them and to buy a pH test kit to make sure the pH was similar . |
7 | The irony is that no VAT would be levied if hoteliers were to set up a separate sandwich bar business next to their property and handed out sandwiches and drinks . |
8 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |