Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the authority and control characteristic of the highly acclaimed Headway course , Headway Advanced sets out to clarify and resolve those areas of language which remain problematic for advanced students , and which present a barrier to the fluency and accuracy they seek . |
| 2 | The recital quoted sets out the reason for adopting such a provision ; and when it comes to interpreting one or other of those detailed provisions , the recital is helpful in setting out the overall purpose to which they relate . |
| 3 | The first step in his financial recovery involved setting up an agency business in Madrid to serve English and other textile manufacturers . |
| 4 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 5 | The advantages of a brewery lease is the small amount of capital needed to set up . |
| 6 | LEASEHOLD restaurants and wine-bars have gained in popularity in recent years ‘ due to the relatively small capital required to set up business , ’ says Chris Day , deputy managing director of Christie & Co . |
| 7 | Now , she judged , his informal look was due only to the casual style of his clothes , a linen jacket in a beige loose-weave designed to set off his sexy tan , and a sort of hand-spun silk T-shirt emphasising the solid muscle underneath . |
| 8 | Under the proposal Poland would allocate over a twenty-year period the zloty equivalent of the hard currency involved to set up and develop schemes to reduce pollution and improve the environment in Poland . |
| 9 | This illustrated the urgency of many commando and other wartime activities when the time needed to set up a special operation was almost impossibly short , but the official records do not show the efforts behind the scenes in preparing the ground . |
| 10 | The interval between the two sets was the time needed to set up the instrument for the lower illumination passing through the filter , about twenty minutes . |
| 11 | So , too , were a number of producer co-operatives by workpeople determined to set up in business themselves whether , by competing with master manufacturers , to reinforce the effect of a strike ; or to counter a lock-out ; or in response to wage-cuts ; or simply to create jobs . |