Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors .
2 ‘ … the designers set out deliberately to create a pedestrian dominated area … short culs-de-sac ( gave ) access to several small courtyards- , around which a half dozen or so houses were grouped quite informally .
3 In the light of all the considerations set out above I propose that the court should rule as follows in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) .
4 As I see it , the considerations set out above and taken as a whole lead irresistibly to the conclusion that , when considering the expression ‘ any person ’ in the sections , it is impossible to identify any particular limitation which can be said , with any degree of confidence , to represent the presumed intention of Parliament .
5 Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation .
6 Thus the original organizations set up mainly by ‘ outsiders ’ — Mining Awareness ( Galway ) and Mining Awareness ( Mayo ) — were not in fact anti-mining groups , but wished only to initiate public debate .
7 These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community .
8 Recovering the fluid link device from the TARDIS the time-travellers set off once more .
9 The meeting concentrated on the activities and progress of the three main working parties set up late last year to consider : rail privatisation ; the bus industry and financing of transport infrastructure .
10 Like normal people have their computers set up so that they print out .
11 But this is an illusion ; and as the boat sets off again , we return to our normal activity : scurrying from one telescope to another , seeing the sharpness fade in one , waiting for the blur to clear in another .
12 My method now is to take the tension setting down as low as the thickness of the yarn will allow , knit a couple of rows , then increase to the loose tension .
13 FOOTBALL clubs have been urged to make early inspections if there is any doubt about their matches to prevent clubs and fans setting off unnecessarily .
14 In addition , the police service itself has issued a code of practice setting out how the principles underlying the Data Protection Act should be applied to the PNC and to other police computer systems .
15 The communications grant NEC set up there in 1970 , and its daily output of two or three tonnes of chips is jetted up to Tokyo every evening .
16 Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system .
17 Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families .
18 Hector and Ewan set off together .
19 So how do you go about persuading the birds to set up home ?
20 Then in 1986 came the opportunity to set up independently with Tim Hely Hutchinson and Sue Fletcher .
21 Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home .
22 In fact , it was said that a plant of balm In the garden would ensure that the bees never left their hive to set up home elsewhere , and since sugar was highly priced in medieval days , honey carried a considerable premium .
23 It might be thought that , given their aversion to the whole terrain of culture , antiracists are generally immune to the kinds of criticisms set out above .
24 If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here .
25 If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here .
26 If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here .
27 First of all , he can include a patent indemnity , without any exclusion clause tacked on to it , along the lines set out above , providing express but limited remedies , and , in particular , not putting forward an express right to compensation for economic loss .
28 Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta .
29 A small lake reflected the cliff face of the towering mountain range above.d There was also a cluster of wooden huts on the plateau — summer retreats where the townsfolk recharge their batteries before winter sets in once more .
30 The Communist Manifesto sets out unequivocally to destroy the very institutions which God created as the basis for the social order .
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