Example sentences of "set [adv] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from resting happily on this team , Robson ought immediately to disrupt it , to set aside his obsession with results , to experiment with players and tactics . |
| 2 | Actors in travelling companies used to set up their stage in a town or village , mix among the inhabitants , watching and listening to the local news , gossip and scandal . |
| 3 | Similarly , Fire Support Company had to set up their display of mortars , anti-tank missiles and Scimitar tracked recce vehicles . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , it was the financial crisis in the NHS that prompted Mrs Thatcher to set up her review in 1988 . |
| 5 | On Jan. 20 the Supreme Council failed to win enough votes to set up its part of a joint parliament-government commission to implement the state of emergency . |
| 6 | Hopefully , we are going to set up our stand at Morrison 's supermarket in the town . |
| 7 | COSE TO SET OUT ITS CASE AT XHIBITION |
| 8 | COSE TO SET OUT ITS CASE AT XHIBITION |
| 9 | ‘ He wanted to set out his stall as someone who would balance the books and create a firm financial situation , ’ said Professor Sherer . |
| 10 | He 'll set up your bit as a separate item . |
| 11 | Basically you can set up your machine for making pleats and then knit in double jacquard . |
| 12 | I set up my equipment at this new site , and watched and waited . |
| 13 | I set up my camera on a tripod and use the self-timer , do a lot of measuring to get the focus right . |
| 14 | Brooke stated that a ‘ substantial part ’ of its turnover would be devoted to ‘ good causes ’ , but the Bill does not set out what proportion of the proceeds will be allocated respectively to prizes , to administration and to the said good causes . |
| 15 | We will set out our agenda for changing Britain for good — our radical |
| 16 | MEPs set out their agenda in European power game . |
| 17 | If we set about our task with intelligence and commitment , victory is well within our grasp . |
| 18 | ‘ Why else would I have set up my workshop near Killearn ? ’ |
| 19 | Yet by March the next year , Brian Courtenay had set up his mistress in the luxury love nest that would help to empty the family coffers . |
| 20 | He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall , draped in black velvet , and its handles tasselled in black and gold . |
| 21 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 22 | It had also set out its stance in the Harare Declaration , adopted by the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) in August 1989 [ see p. 36837 ] and subsequently endorsed by the Non-aligned Movement and the UN General Assembly . |
| 23 | Now against this backdrop we , as a national firm , er have set out our stall to be the leading business that 's our our mission stake . |
| 24 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale has set out his stall for next season and plans a cautious plunge into the transfer market this summer . |
| 25 | The respectable rowdies had set about their business with gleeful shouts of ‘ Now , boys , for a jolly spree ! ’ and ‘ Go it , boys , go it ! ’ doing damage amounting to £300 and causing the proprietor of Cremorne to pay out £500 in prosecuting the case . |
| 26 | She sets out her position in detail in her book Whatever Happened To Sex ? ( 1977 ) , and repeats it in full in A Most Dangerous Woman ? ( 1982 ) in her own defence . |
| 27 | DEC SETS OUT ITS ROADMAP FOR FUTURE ITERATIONS OF ALPHA RISC |
| 28 | This feeds into the authority 's strategic framework which sets out its statement of purpose , guiding values , aims and objectives in the medium term ( usually over a three to five year period ) . |
| 29 | In the letter obtained by the Belfast Telegraph , Mr Clinton sets out his policy towards Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | Urry sets out his model of a capitalist social formation in a diagram ( figure 3.8 ) which shows three interacting components : a sphere of capitalist production ; a state ; and a sphere of struggle ( civil society ) , which comprises the linked spheres of circulation and reproduction . |