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

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1 Set up in agreement with the Board of Trade and the Department of Social Security , the ER scheme allows new entrepreneurs to set up in business for three months without losing any state benefits .
2 The Start Scheme operates on the basis that financial support is provided to an individual who wishes to set up in business for themselves .
3 After a second teatime breakfast in a café , I set off without delay for Kenny 's Bookshop .
4 After lunch they set off to Kingsburgh for one of their most memorable encounters .
5 The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside .
6 I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment .
7 After comfortable MCC draws against Western Australia and an Australian XI , we set off by train for more than four months of practically non-stop cricket from one side of Australia to the other .
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9 We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 .
10 A convoy of four low-loaders carrying the dismantled D furnace and accompanied by a police escort set out from Brymbo for the docks yesterday .
11 The intention — set out in Plan for Action — was to increase consultant numbers by 2.8% a year while keeping constant the number of senior registrars and reducing modestly the number of career registrars .
12 Model conversations set out in tapescripts for audio cassettes for supplementary exercises on note taking from telephone conversations , and for revision .
13 A sub-committee for conferences is , therefore , to be set up with responsibility for all the conferences organised under DAB 's auspices ; this subcommittee will subsume the Annual Congress Committee .
14 The fund for Hungary mirrors that set up by Britain for Poland .
15 Life was a game like tennis , set up by men for men to win with powerful serves she would never be able to return .
16 As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation .
17 Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time .
18 UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development .
19 Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself .
20 Class V2 60815 sets off from Victoria for the south in about 1950 .
21 EC peace conference — Setting out of conditions for independence
22 As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia .
23 Steve , 39 , from Primrose Street , was due to be among the drivers setting out from Edinburgh for the gruelling trip to Monaco .
24 Watkins knew of the Chin tracks in India which follow the most direct line between villages regardless of gradient ; the straight camel tracks of Palestine , sighted on tree clumps on ridges , notched where the line went through ; and the skyline cairns of Egypt set up as landmarks for caravans .
25 ‘ As a matter of fact , he set up in business for himself — not far away , in Mile End . ’
26 SIX mums and their 18 babies yesterday attended the first meeting of a help group set up in Nottingham for mothers of triplets .
27 John on Tuesday last set out with Gilbert for Launceston , intending to visit some island in Bass 's Straits .
28 Letting herself out inconspicuously by way of the backstairs , Joan set out after dark for the Garden Tower , taking a circuitous route to avoid arousing suspicion .
29 Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen .
30 The traditional arguments of the crown , set out by Macanaz for Philip V , were sharpened by the influence of Italian regalists and connected with what was loosely called Jansenism , by which was meant a Spanish edition of Gallicanism .
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