Example sentences of "and setting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone enjoyed the pleasant outdoor atmosphere and setting without having to forfeit convenience . |
| 2 | For me , movies and play were enmeshed during childhood , a certain cinema and its environs being both stimulus and setting for my juvenile adventures to the extent that , thirty years later , its contours and hidey holes still haunt my dreams . |
| 3 | What could be simpler than the ball carrier going in , turning and setting with the support player going in low and hard and stripping the ball as he turns ? |
| 4 | It was reminiscent of one of those terrifying cases in which a hospital porter appears in court after donning a white coat , insinuating himself into the operating theatre , and setting to work on an appendix . |
| 5 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 6 | That means an educated working class , understanding the needs of socialism or communism and setting about the task of achieving it by getting rid of capitalism and introducing socialism , or communism . |
| 7 | I was smashing everything up and setting about people , 'cause I did n't know what was going on or nothing . |
| 8 | There were regular news reports of Hooligan gangs smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners and setting upon policeman in the streets . |
| 9 | The Hooligans were also said to hunt in cowardly packs , however , and news reports regularly featured them smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , assaulting staff in pubs and cheap eating-houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners such as Italian ice-cream vendors or ‘ Froggy ’ cafe owners , and setting upon policemen in the streets with savage howls of ‘ Boot ‘ em ! ’ |
| 10 | The second point on which Tony Crosland gives a rare hostage to the future relates to streaming and setting within the comprehensive school . |
| 11 | In areas of the sub-continent where pearl millet — the basis of the unleavened bread — is grown , soil temperatures often soar to 120F or more , killing seedlings and setting in train crop failures and food shortages . |
| 12 | A method or approach to working together has been devised with the explicit intention of creating a relationship and setting in motion a process which supports the moves towards normalisation whilst still tallying with the emergence of self-advocacy . |