Example sentences of "set [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alba Adriatica , Silvi Marina and Giulianova are three well established holiday resorts set along beaches of fine , golden sand . |
| 2 | The professional codes set down benchmarks for services by engineers . |
| 3 | GRE were founder members of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau , which monitors and arbitrates insurance matters , and members of both Lautro and the Association of British Insurers which set down codes of practice for all members to comply with . |
| 4 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I look tired , ’ Vitor said , as they set off north , ‘ and I feel bushed . |
| 6 | Check all zips and drawstrings are running smoothly before you set off camping . |
| 7 | He did n't , but experts on TV and in the papers set off flurries of speculation that negotiations were finally under way to release all the hostages . |
| 8 | FOUR people were killed and 17 injured when a gang of blacks set off hand grenades and sprayed a South African golf club with bullets . |
| 9 | Travel was a hazardous business in the eighteenth century : two days after they set off Leopold wrote : |
| 10 | To this the tiger agreed , and having tied their tails together in a reef knot , the pair set off arm in arm . |
| 11 | Set aside 100g/4oz of the green icing . |
| 12 | However , it would be wrong to have a system which meant that some countries set aside land so that other countries could produce more . |
| 13 | Half of those who set aside money to pay fuel bills are unable to stretch the budget for extra heating in very cold weather . |
| 14 | Devon and Cornwall Police decided to raise the vessel and set aside £250,000 for the salvage operation , the first by a UK force . |
| 15 | By the end of the century things had at last begun to change : in 1899 Primitive Methodists agreed a minimum of £100 while Congregationalists and Baptists set aside part of their Twentieth Century Funds for salaries . |
| 16 | Greenpeace argues that the recent CAP reform was a missed opportunity ; set aside policies and price reductions are unlikely to reduce surpluses , it says , and will encourage further intensification of production . |
| 17 | As he ‘ crammed ’ his Latin and algebra , he read Don Quixote and Boccaccvo and set aside time to read twenty pages of Goethe and twenty pages of Malory daily . |
| 18 | Set aside time to sit with the patient to relax and talk . |
| 19 | Firstly , set aside time for preparing the meal . |
| 20 | ‘ the complexities of legal practice are such that it is difficult to see how a one man band can take holidays , cope with illness , and set aside time to keep up to date with the law and still give an adequate service to public . |
| 21 | I set aside Lover at the Gate to attend to the children 's needs — Coke and hamburgers from room service soon quietened them . |
| 22 | But as yet it has not approved a timetable or set aside funds for construction . |
| 23 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 24 | Set up pilot projects to collect sorted waste from households . |
| 25 | A lot of people say that you should n't hack young horses out on their own for months , if at all , but I 've always preferred the theory that if horses do n't learn to go out alone from the start you set up problems for later on . |
| 26 | The idea was to clear large areas of tsetse-infested bush and then set up ranching schemes around permanent waters . |
| 27 | George made his Football League debut for the Palace up at Bury — he equalised for us before the break , hit the bar soon after the interval and then set up Ben Bateman for the winner . |
| 28 | Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money . |
| 29 | The air was calm and , once freed of the camera ship , we set up Nigel 's preferred cruise setting of 2,200/25 inches , which translated into an indicated ( and , at 1,500 feet , probably very close to genuine ) 127 knots . |
| 30 | It will be the first international tribunal of its kind since the main allied powers set up courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War to try leading Axis war criminals . |