Example sentences of "and set [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But if not that , then many critics would like to be dictators of literature , to regulate the past , and to set out with quiet authority the future direction of the art .
2 4 Open the parcel at one end , pour the juices into a bowl and set aside for Red pepper sauce ( see facing page ) .
3 He was actually in on the design and setting up of this hospital when Ocean Empress was still in the commissioning stage a few years back .
4 ‘ It would be another tragedy for the able child from the non-affluent home , but there are several places where parents will favour abandoning the state sector and setting up as economical day schools . ’
5 Then , in 1886 , he returned to Vienna and set up in private practice as a consultant on nervous diseases .
6 From now on , every rehearsal should be arranged and set up in this way , so that your band will sound the same every time you rehearse .
7 He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms .
8 As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success .
9 The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches .
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