Example sentences of "set [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm .
2 He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left .
3 If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it !
4 What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for .
5 Set somewhere in the puritanical North Country early this century , it is performed on a stage covered in a lorry-load of Fison 's border compost .
6 ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ .
7 You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love …
8 The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car .
9 Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town .
10 ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us .
11 We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters .
12 ‘ According to the witnesses we have consulted , it seems likely that the growth expectations set forth in the Second National Plan ( 1954–57 ) were in contradiction to the conventional wisdom at the beginning of the 1950s , which expected that only low rates of growth were possible …
13 Both parties enjoyed freedom to contract or not to contract and both parties exercised that freedom by contracting on the terms set forth in the written agreement and on no other terms .
14 At the instigation of the Council , the Commission have proposed a legislative programme of some 48 measures to implement the principles and aims set forth in the Social Charter .
15 Set aside in a cool place .
16 As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry .
17 It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s .
18 Set up in the early 1960s , it was a three-year full-time course with four broad areas of specialization ; fine art , graphic design , three-dimensional design , and textiles/fashion .
19 The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 .
20 This Act abolished the negotiating procedures set up in the 1965 Remuneration of Teachers Act , replacing them until 1990 by authorising the Secretary of State to appoint an interim advisory committee and to impose teachers ' pay and conditions .
21 Set back in a quiet spot off the beaten track , the Hotel Olivi is close to the Grottoes of Catullus which are a must for visitors to this region .
22 He then set out in a violent storm and heavy snow for Fort William , where he hoped to take the oath in the presence of the local commander of government troops .
23 ( 1 ) A registered club may apply to the sheriff for any one of the following orders : ( a ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on weekdays shall not be those set out in section 53(3) of this Act , but shall instead be the period between eleven in the morning and two in the afternoon and the period between four and half-past ten in the evening or alternatively be the said periods on weekdays other than Saturday , and on Saturday be the period between one in the afternoon and half-past ten in the evening ; or ( b ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on Sundays shall not be those set out in the said section 53(3) , but shall instead be the period between half-past twelve and two in the afternoon and the period between four and nine in the evening ; or ( c ) an order which contains both the aforesaid provisions ; and the sheriff shall , if in his opinion the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) below are satisfied , make the order applied for .
24 These bodies insist that their members work to the highest standards set out in the relevant Codes of Practice and strongly recommend that their surveyors are qualified by becoming a Certified Timber Infestation Surveyor ( CTIS ) and Certificated Remedial Damp-proofing Surveyor ( CRDS ) .
25 When the final offer document is sent to the Panel a document charge is payable according to the scales set out in the Blue Book .
26 The Further and Higher Education Bill implements policies set out in the two White Papers : Education and training for the twenty-first century and Higher education : A new framework .
27 In conclusion , tutors are again reminded of their great responsibilities for achieving the high aims set out in the first paragraph .
28 The assumptions set out in the following paragraphs are central to the recommendations on attainment levels and programmes of study in paragraphs 15.24 to 15.41 .
29 ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of this Act , the permitted hours in licensed premises , licensed canteens and registered clubs shall be those set out in the following provisions of this section .
30 For consistency , we use a standard predictive scheme based upon thirty-five predictors representing the influences set out in the general model of media influence described in Chapter 1 .
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