Example sentences of "[vb mod] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Teachers and schools are of necessity partners in the business of curriculum reform and partners must set forth on an enterprise with an understanding of what it is about , and a certain confidence in the policies they pursue . |
2 | When they arrived in Brides Haven Rachel Pritchard welcomed Leonora with a cup of hot , strong tea , but Bryn soon cut across his wife 's chatter , pointing out that they must set out at once if he was to make the return trip before dark . |
3 | Where a firm does provide services to a private customer on written contractual terms ( whether a two-way customer agreement required by the rules or a non-mandatory one used for commercial purposes ) , the agreement must set out in adequate detail the basis on which those services are provided . |
4 | The Plaintiff must set down within six months of close of pleadings ; if no request is made within 15 months , the action is automatically struck out . |
5 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
6 | To avoid potential disputes the parties should set out in a letter , preferably attached to the sale agreement , any specific adjustments that will need to be made for the purpose of the completion statement . |
7 | We 've made some progress towards establishing the criteria which we should set out in our policy , and the mechanisms needed to control that policy . |
8 | The meeting I ought to set up with Samuel 's parents ? |
9 | Then , anything might set in after that job . " |
10 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
11 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
12 | ‘ I 'll be damned if I 'll set up in Northallerton because of the ride they have given me , ’ Mr Davies said . |
13 | This is the finest war memorial you could set up to the men who gave their lives , their limbs , or their health , and those who lost their dear ones in the country 's cause . |
14 | At St Inglevert — do you remember , Lancaster ? he was the match of any he met in arms , if not the master , and so were you , and together you two held any two that France could set up against you , and Jean de Boucicaut himself acknowledged it . |
15 | I mean , by the time you 'd set off walking you could set off at eleven and walk there till twelve go in there till two then you |
16 | The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down . |
17 | From Reading station one could set off round the world . |
18 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
19 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
20 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
21 | As she 'd set off down the drive her one thought had been that perhaps it was n't too late . |
22 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
23 | ‘ Very nice , ’ said Joe , eyeing the purchases , she 'd set out on the bed , ‘ but explain why it 's taken you all day . ’ |
24 | The threatening cloud of gloom that had been pea-sized when they 'd set out for Host Street grew to storm proportions . |
25 | And then , restraining himself from a farewell blast on the Dixie horn , he 'd set out for Liston Hall . |
26 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
27 | ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen . |
28 | A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over . |
29 | In particular , unsteadiness may set in at much lower Ra than it would in their absence . |
30 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |