Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she did not want to be an employee or to set up on her own and accepted a position as Recorder on the South-East Circuit while looking at the appointments pages in the newspapers . |
| 2 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 3 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 4 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 5 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 6 | As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound . |
| 7 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |
| 8 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 9 | I mean , my mother left money for me , it 's in a trust , it gives me something , but he wo n't let me touch the rest of it or set up in anything , he 's a trustee . |
| 10 | These towers were transeptal or set just behind the apses and were polygonal or circular in form . |
| 11 | Workers are more limited to particular geographical locations , and workers ' organizations can be completely destroyed or set back for years by unsuccessful struggles such as long running strikes or ( still more ) a general strike . |
| 12 | All goods supplied by the Seller shall be in accordance with ( i ) the current edition of the relevant Product Description Leaflet as published from time to time by the Seller ( copies of which are available from the Seller upon request ) and ( ii ) those further specifications or descriptions ( if any ) expressly listed or set out on the face of the Order . |
| 13 | The battens are either nailed along the joists or set out at about 400mm centres , at right angles to the joists . |
| 14 | The powers of the region were never as far-reaching ( or set out in such detail ) as was the case in the English counties prior to the 1980 Act . |
| 15 | In defence , the dismounted men-at-arms and archers ( the archers being either in ‘ wedges ’ or set out before the men-at-arms ) provided density of resistance , giving each other support , the men-at-arms being all the better protected , since the archers were able to fire their weapons a considerable distance against an advancing enemy , thus disrupting them before they reached the defending men-at-arms who , with their own cavalry , could then mount a counter-attack . |
| 16 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 17 | Regulation can also be categorised as formal or informal in that it can be set according to statutes and rules , or set informally through self regulation or some form of implicit agreement . |
| 18 | The sum delimited for military spending , 108,000 million roubles , equalled that set aside for social security . |
| 19 | Most players are baffled by the animosity that set in between Morgan and Docherty , although one former . |
| 20 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 21 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 22 | Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax . |
| 23 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 24 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 25 | The court file will record that setting down within the prescribed period if it takes place . |
| 26 | These are the keys that set up to success , so , these are the bits that earn you money . |
| 27 | If the KPMG header is to be used or KPMG is to be referred to in the advertisement either as the contact address or in some other form , then the procedure to be followed is that set out under ‘ Placing of the Business Opportunity Advertisement by KPMG ’ below . |
| 28 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 29 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 30 | It was like a ship that set out with the navigator doing one thing , the captain doing another , the deck hands doing something on their own . |