Example sentences of "to set [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met a boy in his mid-twenties , from Kentucky , who had come to New York to set up as a dentist . |
| 2 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 3 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 4 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 5 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 6 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 7 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 8 | A few people have tried to set up as independent ironers but we seem to be reluctant to pay someone £4 an hour to iron . |
| 9 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |