Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast the tax charge increased in the UK , mainly becuase of the inability to set off UK losses outside the ring-fence against ring-fenced North Sea income . |
| 2 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 3 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 4 | Then in 1986 came the opportunity to set up independently with Tim Hely Hutchinson and Sue Fletcher . |
| 5 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 6 | It was another sunny morning and I took the opportunity to set off with Singi , our assistant sirdar , for a shapely rock peak rising above the campsite and offering the prospect of an interesting climb and a good viewpoint . |
| 7 | Vite ! " he yelled , clapping his hands , and the coolie set off instantly at a frantic gallop along the boulevard . |
| 8 | A group of us were able to provide almost all the funding to set up a pump and latrines for one particular village in India . |
| 9 | Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development . |
| 10 | But I could n't get the support to set up the business . ’ |
| 11 | The retailer setting up a franchise outlet must pay for his own premises , stock , overheads etc ; he owns the entire business , but has the advantage of selling a product that is widely-known . |
| 12 | Yet a revolution in the way football is run in a number of these countries was already under way before the democratisation set in . |
| 13 | The Technique sets out to do precisely the opposite of this , namely , that parts of the body remain free from other parts no matter what position you may adopt . |
| 14 | They want the Government to abolish Child Benefit and all tax allowances for parents and use the money to set up full-time Community Homes for everyone under the age of sixteen . |
| 15 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 16 | It is convenient at this stage of the narrative to set out what were the coroner 's powers and duties . |
| 17 | The text sets out from the premiss that the beneficiary of the trust ought to obtain the actual land ( rather than its value ) ; the question therefore is who ought to pay off the creditor to whom the land is presently pledged . |
| 18 | The text sets out guidelines for coming to a true sense of priorities in the self , not unlike those in Rolle 's Form , and then examines three ways in which man can contemplate God : in nature ( which shows us our place in creation ) , in Scripture ( which teaches the faith ) and on " God self " . |
| 19 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 20 | However , there is no exclusion from the application of Part XV similar to that contained in TA 1988 , s741 , ie it applies whether or not the taxpayer set up the trust to avoid tax and whether or not the transaction was a bona fide commercial transaction . |
| 21 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 22 | Does the Minister accept that when the wishes of the people of Scotland are reflected in the decision to set up a Scottish parliament , it will indeed make sense to reduce the representation of Scots in the House ? |
| 23 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 24 | Section 53(1) allows the buyer to set off damages due to him for breach of warranty against the price he owes the seller . |
| 25 | Sandro said ‘ no , I 'm going back ’ , and with that the police claim that Martin Frears and the other two members of the gang set about Sandro by using gas , tear gas , then handcuffed him . |
| 26 | The framework set out in Figure 7.5 is provided by Tough as a guide for teachers when identifying uses of language ‘ which they are probably already fostering , either intuitively or with some deliberation ’ . |
| 27 | The framework set out in Crystal and Quirk ( 1964 ) is unsatisfactory in two ways : firstly , no explicit distinction is made between sequential and prosodic variables and the choice between , say , rising as opposed to falling tone is presented as a choice of the same type as the choice between fast and slow speed ( tempo ) , which I feel is confusing . |
| 28 | You 've heard before that Leeds works within the rules of the framework set down by regional planning guidance , and that makes very and the main stream of that guidance is the revitalization of our inner areas . |
| 29 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 30 | The Hand That Rocks The Cradle sets back the cause of nannies by 50 years — but boy , what a film . |