Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The right type of facilities need to be built in the area before companies can be attracted to set up in business . |
| 2 | Livewire helps young people aged 16–25 who want to set up in business . |
| 3 | In the meantime , if you want to set off with road map and cheque book , then get the new editions of the Factory Shop Guide . |
| 4 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 5 | By autumn evenings Orion has set soon after darkness , but Sirius and Canopus are still high . |
| 6 | My Lords , my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , has set out in detail the background to this appeal . |
| 7 | A report by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has set out in detail the changes to the nature and composition of the seabird communities in the North Sea as a result of human activity . |
| 8 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 9 | She and Ella had plenty of time before they needed to set off for school . |
| 10 | The Big Brother of ‘ 1984 ’ will have set up in business , a few years late perhaps , but with effective tabs upon everyone . |
| 11 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 12 | Private Enterprise THE UNORTHODOX GREEK Why does a European middle manager choose to set up in business in Britain ? |
| 13 | The Start Scheme operates on the basis that financial support is provided to an individual who wishes to set up in business for themselves . |
| 14 | He appears to have set up in trade as a London mercer , and he was sufficiently well connected to obtain , like his uncle and elder brother , a minor office at court , that of ‘ harbinger ’ , arranging the progresses of the queen . |
| 15 | So , too , were a number of producer co-operatives by workpeople determined to set up in business themselves whether , by competing with master manufacturers , to reinforce the effect of a strike ; or to counter a lock-out ; or in response to wage-cuts ; or simply to create jobs . |
| 16 | Videopics has received inquiries from people hoping to set up in shopping centres and tourist spots , but is keen to stress the potential of running a franchise from home . |
| 17 | Other older husbands and wives had adapted their work ( by changing jobs ) to help a son who was trying to set up in farming . |
| 18 | A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday . |
| 19 | Her will makes no mention of Minton , but it is likely that her death released the trust which her late husband had set up on behalf of the Minton children and of which John now remained the sole heir . |
| 20 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 21 | He had set up in practice on his own about nine years before the competition , and his most important executed work up until then had been the Tudor style Royal Infirmary at Dundee ( 1852–5 ) , which he had won in competition . |
| 22 | The four , in their thirties and forties , had set out on board the 43ft Rose Noelle on 1 June for a three-week voyage to Tonga , but were reported overdue on 24 June . |
| 23 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 24 | In July 1338 Edward had set out on campaign in Flanders , leaving the realm in the charge of a keeper , the eight-year-old duke of Cornwall , and a council , on which Richard Bintworth , bishop of London , and Robert Wodehouse , archdeacon of Richmond , sat as chancellor and treasurer respectively . |
| 25 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 26 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 27 | A company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( p 114 ) . |
| 28 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |
| 29 | Conveyancing work has become more competitive , but solicitors have not lost substantial amounts of work to the modest number of licensed conveyancers who have set up in practice . |
| 30 | YOUNG model makers Kenton Smith and Sarah Szikora have set up in business with cash help and a little inspiration from a 1960s pop record . |