Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cope with this , I set up separate clients ' accounts with the bank with some funding from the band 's accountants . |
| 2 | She set up huge parties , inviting members of both the smart set and Perth 's ‘ old money ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances . |
| 5 | This will enable him to set up excluded property settlements . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their approaches differed — they consulted with organizations from the oppressed groups ; they set up new committee structures ; they funded voluntary groups and made space available to them ; they arranged awareness-training for their staff . |
| 8 | They set up specific change-management systems that were administered by committees , subgroups of board members , and special study groups , and closely monitored the resulting efforts . |
| 9 | They set up random checkpoints on roads between Ballymena and Portstewart stopping vehicles and looking for drugs . |
| 10 | He thought that the Franks came from Pannonia , and that they crossed the Rhine , and marched through Thuringia , when they set up long-haired kings in every region . |
| 11 | Their discussion of what the press ‘ should be and do ’ reflects an East — West Cold War divide and they set out ideal , polar positions so as to highlight differences . |
| 12 | Undaunted they set about flinging ropes over and , one by one , clambered across the yawning gap . |
| 13 | And they set up little communities |
| 14 | So I 'll have to get it set up ready for when I meet you from school and then we can switch it on as soon as we get home . |
| 15 | With the slogan , ‘ The Chance of the 90s : Investing in Eastern Germany ’ , it sets out good reasons why other countries should do so — points already apparently taken up by Britain as a major investor . |
| 16 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 17 | Parker said the group intends to step up this activity until sales levels justify it setting up local operations . |
| 18 | Twice he set up striking partner Kevin Campbell for chances that were well saved by Ipswich 's Canadian goalkeeper Craig Forrest . |
| 19 | When that failed , he set about misleading man 's understanding of Jesus . |
| 20 | Trippy took his cue and banged the palm of his left hand on the top of the cab and Ali must have put down his book — or got to a frightening bit — because he set off sharpish , left back towards Oxford Street . |
| 21 | It set up complex criteria . |
| 22 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 23 | When it came , the eruption was of massive proportions and deposited a great thickness of ash which completely buried the town , and it set off great tidal waves which may have been responsible for the termination of the Minoan civilization by ravaging the coastal towns all around Crete . |
| 24 | It set out legal penalties for such activity . |