Example sentences of "set up on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she did not want to be an employee or to set up on her own and accepted a position as Recorder on the South-East Circuit while looking at the appointments pages in the newspapers . |
| 2 | Training : Tax relief will be given to employers helping employees leaving their company to set up on their own . |
| 3 | The fourth phase of the development of headhunting may be identified as the splintering of individual consultants from existing firms , to set up on their own , such as Haley from Ward Howell and Egon Zehnder from Spencer Stuart , both in 1964 . |
| 4 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 5 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 'm good enough to set up on my own . |
| 7 | I 'm going to set up on my own — put my plate up . ’ |
| 8 | Then Joanna asked thoughtfully , ‘ Sophie , when you first made up your mind to set up on your own , did you contemplate doing any large-animal work at all ? ’ |
| 9 | I accept that there has been a steady concentration of power in the hands of large , sophisticated and diversified publishing companies , yet it is still possible for you or me to set up on our own , and publish highly professional and innovative books from our own back bedroom at very little cost . |
| 10 | This however proved to be the catalyst that Bowran needed to set up on his own . |
| 11 | Kind souls , such as Mr Smith , who had reckoned that Tiller had encouraged his son to set up on his own , were proved wrong . |
| 12 | Stork was attracted to the idea of headhunting , but less to the idea of working for GKR , so he decided to set up on his own , working at both headhunting and marketing consulting . |
| 13 | Eventually it may become so big that one of the young sons may be able to set up on his own in one corner of it . |
| 14 | A disagreement over patients ' preparation and post-operational recovery regime resulted in Daniel leaving his father in 1763 to set up on his own at Ingatestone , Essex . |
| 15 | No I mean she she she , she wanted to try and set up on her own . |
| 16 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 17 | He suggests we get married and do what Robert is doing — set up on our own . |
| 18 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 19 | Thus it has been able to overcome the major hurdle of the possibility of losing top contacts and clients when it was set up on its own . |
| 20 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 21 | She knew that , after an initial period of gaining experience with a leading European firm , he had set up on his own . |
| 22 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 23 | ‘ The costs are the biggest bar to people setting up on their own but I could use his phones , his photocopier , computer , telex , even his secretary to begin with . ’ |
| 24 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 25 | This is currently one of the most popular — and safest — ways of setting up on your own . |
| 26 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 27 | Setting up on his own six years later to provide a service for companies recruiting people in this field , he charged a $200 non-returnable retainer , which was subsequently deducted from his commission : 5% of the successful candidate 's first year 's salary . |
| 28 | Stuart stayed only ten months before setting up on his own in 1956 . |
| 29 | also worked in the Sisson workshop before setting up on his own almost next door in 1745 . |
| 30 | He had also , ten years ago or more , worked for Grunt 's Garages before setting up on his own as a builder/developer . |