Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] set [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson
2 Yeah , I 'd run a creche erm help out you know , be part of a , part of a thing or I could set up some my own
3 But I could set up this magazine , I was good at that sort of thing .
4 I 'd I 'd set off watery moves it must be I 'd set
5 In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session .
6 But we are in no doubt that , if the electorate fails to pardon the Conservatives at the polls today , it will pay a price at the hands of a Labour government , perhaps sustained by the Liberal Democrats , which will set back this country a generation .
7 Do you set out the sum , er you must set out some calculation of how many you are likely to lose over the life of the aircraft , is there a percentage figure you could give us for that ?
8 Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea .
9 At the other extreme you could set up giant screens to show large images of the speaker as we do in larger conferences such as the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall .
10 He was very different from the dour young man who 'd set off all those years ago .
11 She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning .
12 From here you can set up other applications to launch from within Q&A .
13 Sadly this is only really possible in PageMaker as Ventura 's rulers are defined and whilst you can set up vertical grids in XPress you ca n't change them once defined .
14 Er , you can set up these plans to start with a direct debit , which means it probably takes fourteen days to get that sorted with the bank , they 'll allow fourteen days .
15 We may ask an observer to carry a device which records his position , velocity and acceleration as a function of time as he mingles with the crowd or we may set up two observation posts at the entrance and count the number of people per second passing across the space between the posts .
16 See we we have an awful lot of problems , I mean , not only the question of breaking into one 's home things like , car parking or things of a very high accident risk whereas , if we had a beat officer , at least we could set up some sort of local liaison , in so much that we could tell him about our sort of problems , and perhaps between us , resolve them .
17 We will set up temporary facilities if the building is unable to support normal trading .
18 So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that
19 They must set up costly systems of command and control that can work effectively over large distances and deal with the hazards of markets that differ from their own , Managers must feel that the gains will outweigh the costs .
20 Many projects have set out to demonstrate that they could set up efficient and effective monitoring systems .
21 So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear .
22 It is hardly surprising that , after what he had witnessed , he should set about some slaughter of his own .
23 According to , depute clerk of session and secretary to the working party , ‘ there are perceptions that the process is slow but senior law officers have received no particular complaints so it will set out first to test these perceptions by asking if this is in fact the case . ’
24 It will set out recommended procedures for equal opportunities practice in the selection of pupils and tenants for chambers .
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