Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 2 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 3 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 4 | This is obviously related to Foucault 's analysis of the genealogy of the disciplinary society , a society of surveillance and control , which he sets out in his book Discipline and Punish , and to his argument that power proceeds not in the traditional model of sovereignty ( that is negatively , ‘ thou shalt not ’ ) but through administering and fostering life ( that is positively , ‘ you must ’ ) . |
| 5 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 6 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 7 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 8 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 9 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 10 | Okay , so the level whatever you set up for today , will still be that way , unless you change it . |
| 11 | We 've got what we set out for . |
| 12 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 13 | Whatever the outcome , the tendency to rationalize , ie for people to claim that they did achieve what they set out to , is high . |
| 14 | Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be : a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly . |
| 15 | If a professional binder is employed , make very sure that he is what he sets out to be and has all the qualities of sensitive craftsmanship the work demands . |