Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 2 | Set up at the same time as Plowden , with the same terms of reference and some overlap of membership , this report shared Plowden 's philosophy of education , and reached similar general conclusions . |
| 3 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 4 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 5 | turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends . |
| 6 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 7 | Even , I 've never seen it all set up at the same time . |
| 8 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 9 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 10 | A profound depression set in at the same time , despite the fact that she knew her bowel symptoms could now be controlled quite easily . |
| 11 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | And wherever she might wander , she always set out in the same direction . |