Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Carrington 's visit the prominent Soviet commentator Alexander Bovin set down two further Soviet objections to the plan . |
| 2 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 3 | The Convention set down certain human rights and created a political and judicial procedure to secure their protection . |
| 4 | He set down three drinks and a new tab . |
| 5 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 6 | Melt chocolate in bowl set over simmering water , brush over leaves . |
| 7 | It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago . |
| 8 | When it came , the eruption was of massive proportions and deposited a great thickness of ash which completely buried the town , and it set off great tidal waves which may have been responsible for the termination of the Minoan civilization by ravaging the coastal towns all around Crete . |
| 9 | They needed to be there at daybreak , so the Islander set off first at about 11pm and Spencer took-off at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
| 11 | So he set off one day with Moira , as she spoke French , and they stayed in Geneva until they had organized the shop . |
| 12 | Quinn set off fifteen minutes before me but arrived in Kensington three minutes ahead . |
| 13 | For this was Gold Cup day , and Norton 's Coin had a very small supporting role in a performance that Thursday afternoon which would see the hugely popular grey Desert Orchid set off fresh waves of fanaticism with a second victory in the most coveted prize of the National Hunt season . |
| 14 | Yeah you you you sort of set off several legends in your lifetime Adam erm le let's just er either destroy or establish one legend . |
| 15 | In terms of what they were doing , they were crude , heavy-handed models , more likely to destroy the brain than control it ; systems of blocks and stimulae that set off whole chains of unwanted chemical and electrical responses . |
| 16 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 17 | Trippy took his cue and banged the palm of his left hand on the top of the cab and Ali must have put down his book — or got to a frightening bit — because he set off sharpish , left back towards Oxford Street . |
| 18 | This set off another heated debate . |
| 19 | Nuclear Electric was one of 10 identical yachts that set off last September to race 28,000 miles the wrong way round the world , against the winds and currents , crewed by amateurs who 'd paid £15,000 apiece . |
| 20 | If the thought comes into my head that a careless remark has just hurt a friend or made an enemy , ‘ Be expression in his apparently untroubled face set off this vague disquiet . |
| 21 | So Ken set off this summer to walk from St. Bees Head in Cumbria and finished at Robin Hood Bay . |
| 22 | The expedition from the Macintyre organisation in Milton Keynes set off this week … their challenge is our Friday Feature |
| 23 | And is a more textbook fear involved : does the image of pulsing blubber set off some terror of being transported back to the womb ? ) |
| 24 | In 1983 the Department of Employment set up Regional Benefit Investigation Teams . |
| 25 | Prutec , a venture capital fund set up 18 months ago by Prudential Assurance , with £20 million to spend on high-technology projects , has yet to invest in any British biotechnology company , other than Speywood . |
| 26 | She spoke of her role as an officer for the Parish Environment Initiative , set up 18 months ago to help parish councils and interested groups to take care of their ‘ local patch ’ . |
| 27 | Berkeley Eastoak Investment , the jointly-owned commercial property arm set up 18 months ago , announced yesterday it was doubling its original £100m investment in the market . |
| 28 | After last year 's bomb the City 's police installed surveillance equipment , hired around 40 extra officers , and set up occasional road blocks . |
| 29 | Sec. set up many ad hoc sub-committees for relatively simple jobs . |
| 30 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |