Example sentences of "set [adv] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athens could not ignore this , and an indecisive battle ( Tanagra ) followed by a decisive one ( Oinophyta ) gave Athens control of Boiotia till 446 ( see p. 43 for her ‘ land empire ’ ambitions , and for Sparta 's desire to set up Thebes as a counterweight to Athens ) . |
| 2 | Microsoft has set up Windows as a rival to a component of OS/2 called Presentation Manager , which is still backed by IBM . |
| 3 | Joseph Truman , ‘ based on papers now lost ’ , is said to have set up business as a brewer in 1666 , the year of the Great Fire of London . |
| 4 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
| 5 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
| 6 | It uses experiments to measure its subjects ' behavioural components , and sets up psychologists as the neutral agents of these experiments . |
| 7 | ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’ |
| 8 | Now , even while the treaties were being negotiated , Henry was seizing Scottish shipping , demanding the queen 's person , trying to bully Arran into handing over the Scottish castles south of the Forth into English hands , considering setting up Arran as a client king . |
| 9 | PEARS : Andrew Pears , son of a Cornish farmer , set up shop as a hairdresser in Soho in 1789 and began developing a more gentle soap than the harsh ones then used . |
| 10 | When Ernest set up shop as a photographer , she had gone to work as his assistant and their friendship blossomed into romance . |
| 11 | He set up shop as a publisher and on 26 August 1594 married Jayne Vrique ; a son , Isaac , was baptized on 19 April 1595 ; three other children , Thomas , Joan , and Alice , figure in his will . |
| 12 | In November 1991 , Bull set up Integris as a systems integration subsidiary in Billerica , Massachusetts , and half of Integris 's 120-strong staff works on ImageWorks . |
| 13 | Hickman set up practice as a surgeon in Ludlow . |