Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " 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 But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms .
3 Even this , however , was neither central to his thinking nor set out in any detail .
4 But if not that , then many critics would like to be dictators of literature , to regulate the past , and to set out with quiet authority the future direction of the art .
5 Enhancement of visitor facilities and setting up of major displays .
6 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 .
7 ‘ It would be another tragedy for the able child from the non-affluent home , but there are several places where parents will favour abandoning the state sector and setting up as economical day schools . ’
8 But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants .
9 Such was the family interest in the native tank that the tropical marine aquarium was dismantled and set up as another native environment .
10 Then , in 1886 , he returned to Vienna and set up in private practice as a consultant on nervous diseases .
11 Most of the overwintered hives had survived , with the help of bread soaked in ale every couple of weeks , and now they were unwrapped , one or two at a time in case of a late frost , and set up in sheltered corners .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Teachers ' pay and conditions are legally fixed by law ( such as the Teachers ' Pay & Conditions Act 1987 ) and set out in successive annual documents .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 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 .
18 Under the Income and Corporation Taxes Act ( TA ) 1988 , s343 , if certain conditions are satisfied , the tax losses of a trade can be transferred to a new company and set off against future profits of the same trade if conducted by the receiving company .
19 The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches .
20 He changed his mind , and set off in another right direction , but this offered only more hills .
21 Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions .
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