Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids . |
| 2 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 3 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 4 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 5 | ‘ Firstly I set up a still-life — say a bottle , vase and fruit — classic objects . |
| 6 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 7 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 8 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 9 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 10 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 11 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 12 | I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option . |
| 13 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 14 | I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht . |
| 15 | I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet . |
| 16 | Briefed comprehensively by my fastidious fiancee on ironing strategy — ‘ Never start from the front/make sure you give the cuffs a decent jet of steam … not like that , you chump ! ’ — I set about a pile of shirts , mainly cotton but one silk , and a range of trousers . |
| 17 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 18 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 19 | Now then , how do I set up the board ? |
| 20 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |
| 21 | I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment . |
| 22 | I set out the views of the membership below . |
| 23 | These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area . |
| 24 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 25 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 26 | So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in . |
| 27 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 28 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 29 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 30 | Language is richly composed of many references which set up a commonality of theme between different parts of text or speech . |