Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'm good enough to set up on my own . |
| 2 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 3 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 4 | On the morning of the ceremony , Olivia , the mali , Balvinder Singh and myself all set off to Village Shahpur Jat in Mr Singh 's taxi . |
| 5 | When the biggest set of the day came through , well over thirty feet but still well-formed , Doerner , Foo , and Bradshaw all set off in pursuit . |
| 6 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 7 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 8 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 9 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 10 | He got the pleasure of farming , and the losses were merely set off against er |
| 11 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 12 | In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover . |
| 13 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 14 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 15 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 16 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 17 | Having said that , in order to get into production , or even to use it , you ca n't just set up in those days any more than you can today , now you need planning permission to , you need . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 'd prefer to not risk my efforts at the barbecue I can easily set off for home right now . |
| 19 | The new requirements are largely set out in the Building Societies ( Accounts and Related Provisions ) Regulations 1992 , although where the change necessitated a change to the 1986 Act itself , that has been effected through the s 104 mechanism , which enables company law to be applied to building societies by Order . |
| 20 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 21 | The arrangements for such a meeting are normally set out in the articles of association of the company . |
| 22 | While valuation reports of this nature often include reference to the submission made by the parties and any other evidence collated , the reasoning behind valuations is not normally set out in detail . |
| 23 | Some have suggested that the time of death should be postdated to the ninth century , arguing that while the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ) saw a last futile effort to revive a state-run fiscal system , rigor mortis finally set in with the new barbarian onslaughts of Vikings and Saracens . |
| 24 | Very quickly , however , the three young people began to exert over one another the complex mutual attraction which remained characteristic of their relationship , and more than three weeks passed before Coleridge finally set off on the road back to Stowey . |
| 25 | After four years of discussion , the European Commission 's Open Microsystems Initiative is reported to have finally set out on its five year mission to develop next generation microprocessor and software technology , which will utilise both new and existing architectures . |
| 26 | By the time Wordsworth finally set out from Bristol to Racedown in the autumn of 1795 , he had , in the words of The Prelude , ‘ Yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 27 | Todd soon set up as a rival next door , a firm which became Hudswell , Clarke & Co . |
| 28 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 29 | These calculations can be easily set up on a computer spreadsheet and variations may be performed to determine the best-looking selection according to the investor 's risk-return preferences . |
| 30 | Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people . |