Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last the great day arrived , and 17 players and supporters set off for England . |
| 2 | The police had blocked this way and the marchers set off along Duke Street , trying to find another way onto the bridge . |
| 3 | Several temporary sorting offices set up by Canada Post were reportedly attacked and some burnt down . |
| 4 | With more and more bodegas setting up in Rioja — there was 62 in 1985 , 140 by 1991 — and with sales either static or declining , there seems little for recession-hit bodega bosses to laugh about . |
| 5 | Steve , 39 , from Primrose Street , was due to be among the drivers setting out from Edinburgh for the gruelling trip to Monaco . |
| 6 | The most recent review of quotas set up in March 1987 failed to conclude its review , and as a result the IMF board of governors requested fresh proposals for new quotas by April 1989 ; until that review the level of Fund quotas remained unchanged at SDR89.99 billion . |
| 7 | They used bulldozers to break the barriers set up by UNIFIL troops to protect the villages . |
| 8 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 9 | It is encouraging banks and factories to set up outside Bangkok , and is expected to bolster the price of rice to increase farmers ' incomes . |
| 10 | , export manager at Courtaulds Coatings in New Zealand , met fellow winner , manager of the trade and retail paint division at Courtaulds International ( Brazil ) , in Hobart when the yachts set off on February 13 . |
| 11 | YTS programmes are run by local managing agents — employers , FE colleges or voluntary organisations set up by LEAs — and have been monitored and partly financed by the Training Agency ; the rest of the costs of the training programmes are to be met by contributions from local employers . |
| 12 | Out went the Lovebooks set up by Miles and John Hopkins ; its new holding company was KNULLAR , which could be , the paper suggested in August , the ‘ Karmic Neo-Universal League for Liberty and Reality ’ ; but to a Swede , It pointed out ‘ it could mean something entirely different ’ — ‘ fuck ’ to be precise . |
| 13 | Planning authorities are required to operate the policies set out in DoE Circular 3/84 which , in essence , require them to ‘ balance ’ the need to extract coal against environmental damage . |
| 14 | With the Frankish Church 's new emphasis on godparental obligations , such a reinforcing of a biological kin-tie by a spiritual one became an adroit response to the dangers set out by Charlemagne in the 806 division-project . |
| 15 | But this ignores the effect of new accounting rules set out in SSAP 24 , which require companies to spread a surplus over a number of years . |
| 16 | I WAS , and remain , an enthusiast for the proposals set out in John Smith 's alternative budget — as Kenneth Clarke said , incredulously , during a television broadcast , an intentional exercise in redistribution . |
| 17 | The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside . |
| 18 | The conditions set out by Samuel were intended to distance the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition which had cast its shadow across the politics of the 1920s . |
| 19 | First thing this morning campaigners set off for London , and Downing Street . |
| 20 | It fits the principles set out by Conrad ( 1980 ) in allowing language stimulation by making available a number of forms of code . |
| 21 | Browne J. reviewed the authorities and followed the principles set out in Gillian . |
| 22 | ‘ We helped 500 businesses set up in Teesside last year . |
| 23 | All pilot proposals will be evaluated as to the contribution they will make to the Development Programme and , in the case of colleges without a Validation Procedures Agreement ( for details of this see UPDATE 1 ) , proposals will be considered by Scrutiny Panels set up by SCOTVEC . |
| 24 | They were huge baroque establishments set up by J. Lyons and Co. , as a sort of poor-man 's Cafe Royal — several different kinds of restaurants and cafeterias under one roof . |
| 25 | Indeed the Federation of Working Men 's Clubs set up by Oxford House directly assisted the young Oxford missionary in developing the " knack of mingling on terms of personal equality with men , while yet by some je ne sais quoi in himself " , preserving " their freely accorded social homage " . |
| 26 | A Commission of Inquiry into Peat and Peatlands set up by Plantlife , a plant conservation trust , has submitted its report to the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Eastern regional sales centre is one of seven centres set up in July this year following Scottish Amicable 's decision to separate the Independent Financial Advisor ( IFA ) and Appointed Representative ( AR ) distribution channels . |
| 28 | St. George realised that there was every chance that Ofahengaue would become one of the best players of the World Cup and went to the extreme to sign Ofahengaue before the Wallabies set off for London . |
| 29 | Founded in 1801 , it was one of the network of regional museums set up by Napoleon . |
| 30 | The procedures set out in Leviticus presuppose a sanctuary , an altar , and an officiating priesthood , though the historical use and development of these rituals remains obscure . |