Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cope with this , I set up separate clients ' accounts with the bank with some funding from the band 's accountants . |
| 2 | We had also determined to acquit ourselves well in the removal of fish from their natural habitat , and Blair and I set out one evening intent upon playing havoc with Ythan sea-trout . |
| 3 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 4 | If they are n't part of your main holding company in London , maybe you could use them to set up some sort of diversion ? ’ she queried . |
| 5 | The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act , which set up secular courts and procedures , established no new principle not involved in the old form of divorces by petitions in Acts of Parliament . |
| 6 | A motion was proposed and passed at that meeting , which set out general suggestions concerning a possible way forward . |
| 7 | Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities . |
| 8 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |
| 9 | These ideas are the ‘ triggers ’ which set off new lines of thought . |
| 10 | New software modules include VXVMI , a virtual memory tool , which sets up virtual memory capabilities on target systems for run-time and debugging purposes . |
| 11 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 12 | The DoE spokesman said : ‘ This issue is governed by the Waste Collection and Disposal Regulation ( 1992 ) , which sets out various categories of waste that are lifted . |
| 13 | ‘ This is governed by the Waste Collection and Disposal Regulation ( 1992 ) , which sets out various categories of waste which are lifted . |
| 14 | There is a distinction in principle between a book which sets out original ideas , and justifies them ( a MONOGRAPH ) , and a book whose primary function is to distil and tell you what other people 's ideas are ( a TEXTBOOK ) . |
| 15 | The acceptance of a contract which sets out detailed conditions of service , hours worked and parents met is unlikely to provide the flexibility that is required for schools to respond quickly , humanely and sympathetically to family needs . |
| 16 | This Bill , which sets out detailed mechanisms for settling disputes , could be passed early next week . |
| 17 | The board was reconstituted with a majority of key employers from within the industry , its operations and financial systems have been restructured and a strategic plan has been produced which sets out clear objectives against which the success of the board 's actions can be judged . |
| 18 | Following reconsideration of each issue in the light of comments received , the IASC issued a Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements in July 1990 , which sets out 21 E 32 proposals which will be incorporated in revised IASs without substantive changes , and five E 32 proposals that have been deferred pending further work on financial instruments . |
| 19 | Did you set up this help line yourself ? |
| 20 | So you set up some sort of indent . |
| 21 | ‘ I watch you set out each day on your excursions . |
| 22 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 23 | She set up huge parties , inviting members of both the smart set and Perth 's ‘ old money ’ . |
| 24 | Four years ago she set up American Express offices at ICI Billingham and Wilton , and now has a staff of 24 , operating five days a week selling holidays to chemical workers She said : ‘ We 're probably one of the largest offices in the area . |
| 25 | The clampdown has exposed the close links between landowners , the security forces and the cocaine cartels , who set up paramilitary squads to ‘ clean out ’ left-wing activists from rural areas such as the Magdalena Medio . |
| 26 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 27 | Botham , who set out last Friday on the 22-day hike from Land 's End to Margate , is already suffering for his efforts — a deep-seated blister is causing untold pain . |
| 28 | When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances . |
| 29 | There is also Cortex which we set up last year as a process engineering consultancy with a keen interest in environmental work . |
| 30 | Lord God , as we set about this work , we ask that you will lead us step by step . |