Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him . |
| 2 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 3 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 4 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 5 | Like normal people have their computers set up so that they print out . |
| 6 | Rarely can two sets of forwards have covered so much ground and sustained so furious a pace in their efforts to set up scoring chances . |
| 7 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 8 | Rosa Guy is also very descriptive and emotional in her writing , one of my favourite descriptions is on pages 53–54 which tells us how Mrs Aimsley has all her glasses set out on shelves and the higher the shelf , the more expensive the glass and of course not being used to drinking out of glasses , Imamu takes the most expensive type from which to drink milk and syrup and after washing and drying it , he put it back on the shelf , but as he takes his hand away , the glass tips over and falls , smashing on the sink . |
| 9 | Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped — and what is more , by the very group of her countrymen set up to defend her honour and purity . |
| 10 | Peasants were united in their hostility towards the small number of households who left their villages to set up separate homesteads under Stolypin 's provisions , and , above all , towards the nobility . |
| 11 | Parents tried to help their children set up home with the aid of a ‘ marriage portion ’ , but most couples had to rely mainly on their own savings . |
| 12 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 13 | Camps of herders became suburbs of shopkeepers and clerks , their villas set out then much as tents in a camp . |
| 14 | A typical occasion was when Thornton used his contacts to set up a meeting between the paper and the trade-union-sponsored Unity Bank to borrow £10,000 to keep things going for now , and to test the water for the millions of pounds that would be needed in the future . |
| 15 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |
| 16 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 17 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 18 | He was deadly serious , and the expression in his eyes set off her early warning system . |
| 19 | So far , his efforts to set up a maintenance fund for Bemersyde have met with limited success . |
| 20 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 21 | He and his friends set off right away across the sea . |
| 22 | In 1951 , during the period of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonial rule , he walked through his country 's rich tropical forests to China , where he and his colleagues set up a temporary university . |
| 23 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |
| 24 | We did not have an echo chamber at CBR , so when Lance Sieveking required an echo effect our engineers set up a microphone in the gentlemen 's washroom where the reverberation off tiled walls and floor gave the desired effect . |
| 25 | It would not be in our interests to set up new defence structures that would undermine the role of NATO in safeguarding our defence . |