Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 2 | He refused , so after a visit to the General Hospital , almost empty of patients and deserted by Burmese staff , with the remaining civilian doctors and sisters about to leave , I set off sadly with several stragglers and drove through the night to Prome . |
| 3 | Lockhart 's flight became lost and returned to the carrier , then set off again with two hours ' fuel already gone . |
| 4 | Today , although sheep and goats roam on ranges set aside specifically for that purpose , escapees still damage the vegetation but to a much lesser extent . |
| 5 | Most of the red-throated divers which appear in the inshore voes at this time will be local breeders , and territories and relationships will be sorted out with much caterwauling and chasing before the successful pair set up home on some peaty pool . |
| 6 | Set out badly like this , it may not seem diabolically clever . |
| 7 | In a scheme expected to take between six and 12 months to set up , 30 per cent of the capital would be set aside exclusively for Romanian nationals in five private ownership funds . |
| 8 | Over 700 acres on the northern slopes are set aside specifically for public recreational use , ie Hillend and Bonaly Parks which are under consideration for designation as Country Parks . |
| 9 | A trust is set up even in this way : ‘ I want you to give ’ ‘ I desire you to give ’ ‘ I believe you will give ’ . |
| 10 | A blast furnace was set up here in 1755 by Jonathan Kendall , powered by a waterwheel and fired with charcoal , and it remains in situ beside the River Dovey , the subject of preservation for public interest . |
| 11 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |
| 12 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 13 | Can I interrupt and say at the moment that there 's a vast difference between a site which is set up indiscriminately on some layby somewhere with no direction or control and no facilities there , and the sort of the thing that we 're talking about . |
| 14 | Clubs and other organisations which are set up purely for sporting purposes can not normally be recognised as charities and would not be able to enjoy the relaxations proposed . |
| 15 | Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . |
| 16 | The solution can be set out neatly in tabular form as in T2 , T3 , T4 where the circled entries are the values of basic variables and the remaining entries display ( which is zero for basic variables ) . |
| 17 | These proposals are set out later in this Manifesto . |
| 18 | Additional details of other entries that may be found in the certificate ( eg notices ) are set out later in this chapter . |
| 19 | In obtaining their most precious substances from remote environments the Danubian peasants were only following a pattern set long previously by Upper Palaeolithic man . |
| 20 | Even today it is possible to come across a secondary school without any library , in the sense of a collection housed in a room set aside entirely for that purpose ; some of these libraryless schools are in the private sector , and eager parents pay heavily for the " privilege " . |
| 21 | The communications grant NEC set up there in 1970 , and its daily output of two or three tonnes of chips is jetted up to Tokyo every evening . |
| 22 | Sometimes Chinese Walls are used ; at other times firewalls , whereby a certain type of business is conducted separate from ordinary business , within a specialized subsidiary set up specifically for this purpose . |
| 23 | East India affairs apart , Herne 's parliamentary career was limited to sitting on a number of committees ( the committee set up early in 1695 to prevent the clipping of the coin being probably the most notable ) . |
| 24 | Can the law of implied terms be used to imply any other of the elements of an expert clause set out earlier in this chapter ? |