Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CTC cost £7.5m to set up with £5.5m coming direct from the Government . |
| 2 | DIY inquiry : A public inquiry into a top DIY chain store 's bid to set up in Stockton opens today in the town hall . |
| 3 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 4 | Val and I set off with intentions to watch the jumps , but the Skippers road to the bridge is specifically excluded from motor insurance policies and when we saw it , we understood why ; it 's a dirt track along a precipice . |
| 5 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 6 | Then the teams set off for home bringing this year 's Beaujolais Nouveau by the shortage mileage from Beaune to Liverpool . |
| 7 | I set off for Duxford cursing . |
| 8 | Encouraged by their interpretations of each others ' dreams they set off against Humbaba to cut down his cedar forests . |
| 9 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 10 | Then we set off by car to tape some face-to-face interviews with funeral directors . |
| 11 | A substantial portion of the surpluses generated out of slave labour and the trade in cotton , sugar and tobacco was channelled into banking operations and undoubtedly provided one important element in the emergence of Britain 's banking system , with most of the major banking corporations of today tracing some part of their profits to earlier banks set up with finds derived from the triangular trade ( Fryer , 1984 , pp. 40ff ) . |
| 12 | You can view any special links set up between users using option 7.2.7 — View User Special Links . |
| 13 | policy and assessment branches set up within HSE to co–ordinate and stimulate effort on major hazards |
| 14 | ‘ I would never set out in life to assassinate anybody , but some people have made sure that the mud will stick to me . ’ |
| 15 | The truce of Espléchin in September did nothing to quieten importunate creditors , and on 30 November , having sent a bitter denunciation of Archbishop Stratford to the pope , Edward frustrated , desperate and furious — set out for England to wreak revenge and secure funds . |
| 16 | ‘ A trio of heroes set out in winter to save the land in a quest to the north . |
| 17 | We recently joined with other organisations to write to the Secretary of State for the Environment urging him to change the rules set out in Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 . |
| 18 | The procedures set out in Leviticus presuppose a sanctuary , an altar , and an officiating priesthood , though the historical use and development of these rituals remains obscure . |
| 19 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 20 | William had set off on Saturday to walk between Ben Dearg and Ben Alligin Hills . |
| 21 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 22 | Some systems have addressed this problem using a blackboard approach ( e.g. HEARSAY , [ Erman , 1975 ] ) in which a neutral working area is set up for components to store the results of their analysis . |
| 23 | A film about an estate agency specially set up for squatters has been criticised for promoting an unacceptable activity . |
| 24 | Because of the sensitive nature of the police inquiries , a direct line has been set up for women to contact Gloucestershire detectives , based in Bristol . |
| 25 | " Committees for justice " were to be set up at grassroots level in an attempt to alleviate mass unemployment , de-industrialization , the destruction of agriculture and the " humiliation " of east Germans . |
| 26 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 27 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 28 | Motability was set up with government backing in 1977 with the aim of helping disabled people to use their mobility allowances to achieve greater value for money . |
| 29 | The Milice was a political police force set up by Vichy to safeguard Pétain 's National Revolution and combat enemies of the ‘ new moral order ’ , identified as communists , freemasons and Jews . |
| 30 | During 1864 the Schools Inquiry Commission , set up by Parliament to examine and report on the condition of the ancient foundations , visited the School . |