Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So you set up some sort of indent . |
| 32 | Did you look at any comparable institutions when you set up this one ? |
| 33 | ‘ You set up this whole thing deliberately , just to cause me the maximum amount of aggravation , did n't you ? |
| 34 | I want you to have the portrait too , as you set so much store by it . |
| 35 | ‘ I watch you set out each day on your excursions . |
| 36 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 37 | After a training disrupted by a torn Achilles tendon , she set up five new Surrey classes , and several more when she moved to Oxford in 1981 . |
| 38 | She set up huge parties , inviting members of both the smart set and Perth 's ‘ old money ’ . |
| 39 | Four years ago she set up American Express offices at ICI Billingham and Wilton , and now has a staff of 24 , operating five days a week selling holidays to chemical workers She said : ‘ We 're probably one of the largest offices in the area . |
| 40 | No Charlton player could match the first touch control of Newcastle midfielder Lee Clark who set up two of his side 's goals . |
| 41 | The clampdown has exposed the close links between landowners , the security forces and the cocaine cartels , who set up paramilitary squads to ‘ clean out ’ left-wing activists from rural areas such as the Magdalena Medio . |
| 42 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 43 | In this the miners are at one with the demonstrators who set up another first in Moscow yesterday — the first rival march to the parade in Red Square which officially salutes the revolution . |
| 44 | Botham , who set out last Friday on the 22-day hike from Land 's End to Margate , is already suffering for his efforts — a deep-seated blister is causing untold pain . |
| 45 | Fifty-five years of unadventurous apprenticeship had led to fourteen years of leadership , buffeting but successful , crowned by a spectacular retirement , followed , ironically , for a man who set so much store by repose , by a sad decade of dismal leisure . |
| 46 | If they are strongly and exclusively attached to domineering parents who set impossibly high standards and are deeply ‘ hurt ’ when their offspring fail to live up to them , it is probable that they will acquire a sense of conscience so severe and restrictive that their spontaneity and emotional life will be crippled and much of their creative energy will remain unused . |
| 47 | When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances . |
| 48 | There is also Cortex which we set up last year as a process engineering consultancy with a keen interest in environmental work . |
| 49 | Suppose we set up some small group scenes about neighbours arguing , trying to resolve a dispute ( it could be open-ended , up to the children to sort out the " back story " or the teacher could prescribe it — a barking dog in one house and loud music late at night in the other ) . |
| 50 | In this section we set out one broad school of thought — the instrumentalist explanation — which draws its inspiration from the early writings of Marx . |
| 51 | Lord God , as we set about this work , we ask that you will lead us step by step . |
| 52 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 53 | This is a big sound with everything set rather far back in a reverberant hall in the orchestra 's hone city . |
| 54 | We set up all the assignments . |
| 55 | We do when we set up this group we asked |
| 56 | The way we set up this system management , the procedure owner has the master copy of related forms . |
| 57 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 58 | Protocol was strict in a less democratic age ; members of the Engineer 's staff were not permitted to speak to students unless spoken to , and all maintenance staff were issued with two sets of overalls and instructed to keep one set spotlessly clean . |
| 59 | This will enable him to set up excluded property settlements . |
| 60 | Usually , in doing so , they set up alternative signals : that this tent , this stretch of street , this canteen , this waiting-room , is where this different kind of artist wants his work to be seen . |