Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 3 | Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders . |
| 4 | Such was the family interest in the native tank that the tropical marine aquarium was dismantled and set up as another native environment . |
| 5 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
| 6 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 7 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 8 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |
| 11 | When set up as a Novell 3.11 file server the DC-2031 cached IDE host card only really made its presence felt on the 128Kb Sequential Read Test , improving performance by about 15 per cent . |