Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 2 | All goods supplied by the Seller shall be in accordance with ( i ) the current edition of the relevant Product Description Leaflet as published from time to time by the Seller ( copies of which are available from the Seller upon request ) and ( ii ) those further specifications or descriptions ( if any ) expressly listed or set out on the face of the Order . |
| 3 | In defence , the dismounted men-at-arms and archers ( the archers being either in ‘ wedges ’ or set out before the men-at-arms ) provided density of resistance , giving each other support , the men-at-arms being all the better protected , since the archers were able to fire their weapons a considerable distance against an advancing enemy , thus disrupting them before they reached the defending men-at-arms who , with their own cavalry , could then mount a counter-attack . |
| 4 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 5 | The court file will record that setting down within the prescribed period if it takes place . |
| 6 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 7 | It was like a ship that set out with the navigator doing one thing , the captain doing another , the deck hands doing something on their own . |
| 8 | However , the most recent statement of our approach to the question of recognition , which is also likely to guide our attitude to the adherence of these countries to the United Nations , was that set out in the meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers earlier this week . |
| 9 | Of course it was challenged in the discussions , but the outcome is that set out in the Anglo-Italian paper . |
| 10 | a The form of a statutory notice , i.e. for Structure Plan and Local Plan intention to prepare/submission/modification should follow that set out in the Town and County Planning ( Structure and Local Plans ) ( Scotland ) Regulations 1983. ( 1983 No 1590 ( s. 149 ) ) . |
| 11 | The target far exceeds that set out in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , which requires local councils to recycle 25 per cent of waste by the turn of the century . |
| 12 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 13 | Ossie and Tito steal him back and set off for the wild reaches of western Ireland with Byrne , Kelly and their friend Kathleen ( Barkin ) in hot pursuit . |
| 14 | One of the spoke machines from the Road Vehicle Shop was adapted ; cutter block was quickly made and set up by the tool-room , but two dimensions could not be attained in this process . |
| 15 | He rolls up his sleeves and sets in on the dishes that I have eaten from over the course of the day . |
| 16 | A man stranded on a desert island builds a rowing boat and sets out for the nearest land . |
| 17 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 18 | The largest intact building , erected beside the small church , was occupied by three resident monks , a lay servant , and a group of men from Berwick , who , under the supervision of a black-robed clerk , were carrying out and setting up before the building a trestle table with a stool for each end , and a couple of benches . |
| 19 | The final meeting took place on Nov. 21 in Havana , Cuba , of the Joint Monitoring Commission ( JMC ) on south western Africa , comprising representatives from Angola , Cuba , Namibia , and South Africa and set up under the Brazzaville Protocol of Dec. 13 , 1988 [ see p. 36380 ] to oversee the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435/78 , on Namibian independence and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola . |
| 20 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 21 | For example , if you use what was the dining room for a work room/study as well , you should either have a round table which can be piled with books when necessary , a table set off-centre , or a drop-leaf table that can be pulled out and set up in the centre of the room as required . |
| 22 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |
| 23 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) Wherever , in ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above , the order requires one or other court to consider whether it ought to try the case or whether it ought to transfer it ( pursuant to the powers of transfer under ss 40(2) , 41(1) or 42(2) of the 1984 Act ) that court must have regard to the criteria laid down in art 7(5) and set out at the start of Chapter 13 . |
| 25 | A man must take up his pilgrim 's staff and set out on the farthest journey of all towards the very horizons of thought and dwell there always . |
| 26 | Within six months , however , he had left the Party and set out on the road that led to the formation of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 . |
| 27 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 28 | The two exiles fall in together and set out on the adventure of becoming a suburban couple . |
| 29 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |
| 30 | With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory . |