Example sentences of "set [adv prt] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes about half an hour to set up for 2 shots , which will take up about 5 seconds each on screen . |
| 2 | Right hand gear change , non-synchromesh gearbox and in a very odd posture for driving , they set off for 5 laps in these amazing cars . |
| 3 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 4 | We have some sympathy , however , with those who have said that where property was settled before 26th March 1974 the trustees should have the opportunity , for , a limited period , to distribute the capital absolutely to individuals or create an interest in possession so that the rules set out for discretionary trusts will not apply . |
| 5 | The organisation will consist of executive and advisory boards and ad hoc committees and task forces will be set up for specific projects . |
| 6 | ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ … |
| 7 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 8 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 9 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 10 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 11 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 12 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 14 | In January 1968 Crawford and his family , which now included baby Lucy , set off for six months in Hollywood . |
| 15 | There are three main ways you can do this ; you can continue at school , have a home tutor , or attend a special unit or project set up for pregnant school-girls and school-age mothers . |
| 16 | She told a London press conference that a raft of decisions had been announced and a tight timetable set up for future reforms , designed to prevent the spiral of decline predicted in the report if action were not taken . |
| 17 | These College regulations , based closely on those in the French veterinary schools , although reduced in number and somewhat ameliorated , set out for resident pupils a pretty strictly regimented way of life , against which they occasionally rebelled . |