Example sentences of "set up as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 2 | A few people have tried to set up as independent ironers but we seem to be reluctant to pay someone £4 an hour to iron . |
| 3 | The quota system , which critics claim permits poached ivory to enter legal trade , was set up as African elephant numbers fell from an estimated 1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 today . |
| 4 | Perhaps we will even copy the German Gruppe in which the decentralized units are set up as separate companies with their own top managements . |
| 5 | They show how the name of the root package can be supplied to the programs from the DCL command line and how the remainder of the parameters can be set up as in-line code . |
| 6 | They show how the name of the root package can be supplied to the programs from the DCL command line and how the remainder of the parameters can be set up as in-line code . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be another tragedy for the able child from the non-affluent home , but there are several places where parents will favour abandoning the state sector and setting up as economical day schools . ’ |
| 8 | But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants . |
| 9 | Leaving Gossage in 1865 Hargreaves worked for two other soap manufacturers in Runcorn and Liverpool ; in 1871 he and his youngest brother John set up as consulting chemists in Widnes . |
| 10 | In 1879 he and his elder brother E. B. Castner set up as consulting chemists in New York . |