Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways the CPVE conforms very closely to the goals originally set out for the GCSE . |
| 2 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 3 | It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with |
| 4 | ‘ Where fishermen once set out to sea , now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores . ’ |
| 5 | Where fishermen once set out to sea , now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores . |
| 6 | Topaz nodded and two days later set out with Sister Cecilia and Sister Anne , who were to be her escort . |
| 7 | A further delay ensued and it was not until July that the two great armies finally set forth on the third anniversary of the Battle of Hattin . |
| 8 | Some writers probably set off with that idea in the back of their minds , but up to now Hannah has disarmed them all . |
| 9 | In between the shelled-out buildings , people shuffle like the walking dead — thousands thronging to the feeding centres hastily set up by relief agencies . |
| 10 | In Baidoa , we told how 300,000 people were flooding into feeding centres hastily set up by relief workers . |
| 11 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 12 | As well as crime for corporations and crimes against corporations ( employee theft ) , there are corporations deliberately set up for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity . |
| 13 | If you do not adhere to these , there are both informal and formal disciplinary procedures currently set out in the ES Personnel Handbook ( soon to be replaced by a statement of terms and conditions ) and a range of disciplinary penalties up to and including dismissal . |
| 14 | The men immediately set off in one direction , scrambling down through the trees and undergrowth towards the subsidiary valley where the shot had sounded . |
| 15 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 16 | The knocker boys usually set off in groups of three or four , targeting a particular area that is likely to throw up worthwhile items . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) The purposes referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above are : ( a ) the sale or supply to persons taking table meals in the premises of alcoholic liquor supplied in a part of the premises usually set apart for the service of such persons , and supplied for consumption by such a person in that part of the premises as an ancillary to his meal ; and ( b ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor so supplied . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) The purposes referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above are : ( a ) the sale or supply to persons taking table meals in the premises of alcoholic liquor supplied in a part of the premises usually set apart for the service of such persons , and supplied for consumption by such a person in that part of the premises as an ancillary to his meal ; and ( b ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor so supplied . |
| 19 | ( ii ) [ repealed 1981 c. 23 , Sched. 4. ] ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below there shall be permitted hours in those premises on Sundays , such permitted hours being the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening ( 3 ) The purposes referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above are : ( a ) the sale or supply to persons taking table meals in the premises of alcoholic liquor supplied in a part of the premises usually set apart for the service of such persons , and supplied for consumption by such a person in that part of the premises as an ancillary to his meal ; and ( b ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor so supplied . |
| 20 | documents clearly set out to the staff , what I thought was our collective understanding of the section engineer oblique project engineer relationship |
| 21 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 22 | Even in Jakarta 's sixteen-storey Kartika Plaza hotel the fruit may only be consumed on three floors specially set aside for it . |
| 23 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |