Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 2 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 3 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 4 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 5 | Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’ |
| 6 | To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria . |
| 7 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 8 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 9 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 10 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 11 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 12 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 13 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 14 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
| 15 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 16 | Existing techniques are accurate enough to measure such changes in the Sun 's size directly , and monitoring programmes set up in the wake of these various claims and counter-claims will resolve the issue , one way or another , before the end of the decade . |
| 17 | Paddy Ashdown is definitely going to Hoy , to look at the Hoy Telecottage , one of the community facilities set up in the wake of the H&I Initiative to take advantage of the facilities it offers . |
| 18 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 19 | Many ex-army tradeswomen set up in the brewing trade , opening licensed houses where they could . |
| 20 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 21 | It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down . |
| 22 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 23 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 24 | In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs . |
| 25 | set back in the inside ? |
| 26 | The powers set out in the rest of Clause 3 are standard matters often appearing in a company 's memorandum and , as is common practice , they are broadly worded for the sake of completeness . |
| 27 | The powers set out in the rest of Clause 3 are standard matters often appearing in a company 's memorandum and , as is common practice , they are broadly worded for the sake of completeness . |
| 28 | According to this system , Structure Plans are supposed to spawn District Plans : the District Plans are supposed to look at problems set out in the Structure Plan in more depth , and they are supposed to show how general planning policies might be worked out in practice . |
| 29 | At the very least drafting of consumer contracts which avoid the types of clauses set out in the Annex will go most of the way towards ensuring that such contracts are fair within the terms of the Directive . |
| 30 | One way of attempting to assess the situation is to look at the list of unfair terms set out in the annex to the Directive , and decide the extent to which English law will already control such clauses . |