Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powers of the region were never as far-reaching ( or set out in such detail ) as was the case in the English counties prior to the 1980 Act . |
| 2 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 3 | Even this , however , was neither central to his thinking nor set out in any detail . |
| 4 | He was actually in on the design and setting up of this hospital when Ocean Empress was still in the commissioning stage a few years back . |
| 5 | Such was the family interest in the native tank that the tropical marine aquarium was dismantled and set up as another native environment . |
| 6 | From now on , every rehearsal should be arranged and set up in this way , so that your band will sound the same every time you rehearse . |
| 7 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 8 | Hand-outs usually give information and therefore the information must be accurate and set out in such a way that it can be easily read and understood . |
| 9 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 10 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 11 | He changed his mind , and set off in another right direction , but this offered only more hills . |
| 12 | The basic objective of the I.D.P. as set out in that Regulation was to ‘ improve working and living conditions in the Western Isles ’ through a series of measures designed ’ .... to improve agriculture ; to improve the marketing of agricultural ( and fisheries ) products — including the afforestation of marginal land , operations to improve the marketing and processing of agricultural products and measures to develop fisheries , but also measures relating to tourist amenities , crafts , industrial and other complementary activities essential to the improvement of the general socio-economic situation of those isles ’ . |
| 13 | We have discussed this in more detail in Chapter Three where we saw how the parameters of this debate as set out in these campaigns were seized upon by the Tory Party with little or no response from the Labour Party who seemed unable to cope with the authoritarian drift . |
| 14 | And er they took the decision erm to erm pursue the policies er as as as set out in this E I P . |
| 15 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |