Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’ |
| 3 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 4 | Teachers and schools are of necessity partners in the business of curriculum reform and partners must set forth on an enterprise with an understanding of what it is about , and a certain confidence in the policies they pursue . |
| 5 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 6 | The differential stresses set up about an opening usually modify the skin to form a lip . |
| 7 | They thought then that they would set out as an army and conquer the rest of the land and rule over it ; that was their mission . |
| 8 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 9 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 10 | Trust officials have secured much of the money they need — the £3 million will be set aside in an endowment fund — through the body 's own resources , and donations from the Environment Department and Countryside Commission . |
| 11 | In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham . |
| 12 | Connaught was set up as an investment vehicle after the 1987 crash . |
| 13 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
| 14 | For this reason , many commercial relational DBMS enable links to be set up as an option and therefore they can be set up beforehand and executed each time they are required . |
| 15 | In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange . |
| 16 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 17 | Since the article was published , a number of schemes have been set up in an attempt to improve the quality of child minding . |
| 18 | An idea-handling system which is set up in an organization where the climate is bad tends to make that climate still worse . |
| 19 | Firstly the side rail joints are set out at an angle as the seat increases in width towards the front . |
| 20 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 21 | At its most basic level , formal structure refers to the physical shape of the organisation the distribution of jobs and lines of command often set out in an organisation chart , if the firm in question has one . |
| 22 | The project 's main aims and objects are set out in an editorial by R. B. McKerrow carried in the first issue . |
| 23 | Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out . |
| 24 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 25 | This is set out in an affidavit sworn by Mr. Roger Anthony Barnes , who is an assistant director of the Bank of England and the head of the Banking Supervision Division , in which capacity he is the senior official in the division responsible for the supervision of institutions authorised under the Act ; it was he who authorised and signed the section 39 notice , after discussion with the officers of the Bank of England immediately responsible for conducting the supervision of the defendants . |
| 26 | Importantly , no settlement figure is given in the application , commonly heard before the registrar , but the facts will be set out in an affidavit , and medical reports , if relevant , and counsel 's opinion if taken , should be available to be shown to the court . |
| 27 | He sees Anglo-American unions as being set apart by an emphasis on wage bargaining , together with their greater organisational unity and financial resources . |
| 28 | Reviewing Pincher Martin , Amis once mildly reproached Golding for failing to ‘ turn his lifts of originality , of intransigence , and above all of passion to the world where we have to live ’ , since the novel is set remotely on an island in the Atlantic . |
| 29 | Setting up of an Information Technology area within the library |
| 30 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |