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

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1 And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack .
2 It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC .
3 One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management .
4 Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge .
5 Mr Clark continued : ‘ Now set out in a most scholarly book of some 700 pages , it is probably the important revisionist text to be published since the war .
6 With no back-up flap system the aeroplane is set up for a slightly flatter flapless approach at 130 knots .
7 It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children .
8 There was a roadblock set up with no less than three machine-guns .
9 In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship .
10 But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies .
11 This was a review of the Youth Service , set up by the recently elected Conservative government .
12 Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act .
13 This is set up in a very similar way to above , but the advantage of using continuous stationery , is that only the sections for the height of the design will need to be joined together , because we can print the width sections as one continuous piece of paper .
14 As the demand for cotton goods rose ( partly owing to economic growth caused by advances in agricultural techniques and extended foreign trade ) cotton production shifted from the putting-out system to mills being set up in the rapidly urbanising towns .
15 Paradoxically , much of what I have said about the writing of straightforward mystery stories applies just as much to inverted stories , the books that seemingly set out on an exactly opposite course .
16 Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool .
17 It is set out in a legally binding protocol which forms an integral part of the treaty .
18 The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November .
19 This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany .
20 Any new operation setting up in the architecturally acclaimed building would have to satisfy strict planning constraints , however .
21 Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge ?
22 Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual .
23 On the far long side , his grey form set off against the freshly raked dark tan of the peat floor , Theodora saw what she had clearly been brought to see .
24 He derides particularly the Dedlock family portraits : ‘ The whole race he represented as having evidently been , in life , what he called ‘ stuffed people ’ , — a large collection , glassy eyed , set up in the most approved manner on their various twigs and perches , very correct , perfectly free from animation , and always in glass cases . ’
25 JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything .
26 I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’
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