Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 Enhancement of visitor facilities and setting up of major displays .
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 But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants .
6 Then , in 1886 , he returned to Vienna and set up in private practice as a consultant on nervous diseases .
7 Most of the overwintered hives had survived , with the help of bread soaked in ale every couple of weeks , and now they were unwrapped , one or two at a time in case of a late frost , and set up in sheltered corners .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Under the Income and Corporation Taxes Act ( TA ) 1988 , s343 , if certain conditions are satisfied , the tax losses of a trade can be transferred to a new company and set off against future profits of the same trade if conducted by the receiving company .
12 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 .
13 Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions .
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