Example sentences of "set [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You need to set down at the start what you expect to achieve .
2 Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence .
3 Seismic stratigraphy is a technique whereby seismic waves generated by.small explosions set off at the surface are reflected or refracted from discontinuities in the underlying sediments which represent changes in sediment properties .
4 The schoolboy team will set off at the end of the month .
5 The first to arrive , 3 Regiment , Army Air Corps , will set up at the base next month , with the staggered arrivals ending in 1995 when 4 Regiment , also presently based in Germany , settles in with a battalion of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and two Air-Sea Rescue helicopters .
6 They set up at the foot of the first escalator .
7 ‘ Paramedics would be used , field hospitals set up at the scene if necessary , helicopters from Whitechapel would fly out casualties , ’ added Mr Whitehead who said a triangle of hospitals would deal with the injured and all the plans were agreed by the airport 's consultative committee .
8 Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] .
9 It is possible to study for an honours degree in Italian , or for the variety of joint honours degrees set out at the beginning of the Arts section ( with another modern European language , for example , or with a number of other Arts subjects , or with Business Studies ) , and Italian may also be taken as a major or minor part of the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) .
10 I set out at the time the details of the areas where we would see new and better facilities reopening , and those better facilities have reopened .
11 The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 .
12 Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) .
13 It was now necessary to be able to detect adulterants , and in October 1842 a laboratory ( the ancestor of the later Laboratory of the Government Chemist ) was set up at the excise department headquarters in Broad Street , London , staffed solely by George Phillips .
14 A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads .
15 A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year .
16 Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base .
17 Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there .
18 It will be set up at the beginning of 1991 .
19 A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 .
20 It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces .
21 A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that .
22 When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent .
23 Three makeshift stalls had been set up at the entrance to a shopping mall .
24 It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years .
25 And we 've got ta , wha what we 'll do we 'll get those set up at the sort of the appropriate working temperatures , and working humidity and then we will have to deal with people on an individual basis , if basically , they 're uncomfortable because of draft or whatever it might be .
26 The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room .
27 The Arch of Trajan in Ancona ( A.D. 113 ) was set up at the harbour entrance astride a causeway .
28 The company was set up at the height of the property boom .
29 In several European countries there were disclosures during November concerning clandestine anti-communist units , apparently set up at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and intended to lie dormant for activation in the event of a communist takeover .
30 In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade .
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