Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [num] " 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 Lockhart 's flight became lost and returned to the carrier , then set off again with two hours ' fuel already gone .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
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