Example sentences of "set [pron] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 2 | A self-confessed con-artist and charlatan , he used his ‘ nimbleness of wit ’ to set himself up as a quack doctor and an exorcist . |
| 3 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 4 | To satisfy that humble demand the GMC , pace its president , would not have to set itself up as ‘ an investigation bureau to assess the scientific validity of new treatments before allowing doctors to use them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 6 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 7 | She said she did n't mind Elizabeth being Queen at all , and had no doubt she was a very good one too , but that it was evil and presumptuous of her — the illegitimate daughter of an excommunicated heretic and a beheaded adulteress — to set herself up as defender of the Faith . |
| 8 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 9 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 10 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 11 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 12 | We must never forget that the history of kinship presented there is primarily a criticism of capitalist society and that Marx and Engels were not attempting to set themselves up as anthropologists . |
| 13 | Where there is no further land for settlement and for people to set themselves up as independent farmers or pastoralists , there is an added reason for a land-controlling class to emerge , firstly because land hunger tends to differentiate a peasantry and secondly there is no alternative for those without enough land but to work for others . |
| 14 | They set me up as a target . |
| 15 | Eminent and learned the judge may be , but he can not set himself up as God over all football . |
| 16 | He 'd kill Barak and set you up as the fall guy — I believe that 's the term you Americans use . |
| 17 | Oh yes , I was assuming that erm a I do , I did n't really set it out as a formal agenda just as a |
| 18 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 19 | ‘ We set it up as a pilot programme to answer the call for more training in the field . |
| 20 | Why do they set themselves up as tradesmen if that 's all they 're going to do ? |
| 21 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
| 22 | ‘ You set yourself up as judge and jury , and yet who are you to decide matters — a man who spent the evening philandering with his secretary ! ’ |
| 23 | This lack of organization was compounded by the fact that many trades councils set themselves up as councils of action to run the dispute it the local level . |
| 24 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 25 | Of how a man might contrive to open a cylinder of phetam , and perhaps set us up as a God-King himself , on a more salubrious world … |
| 26 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 27 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 28 | Courtney had set himself up as a pioneer working with women victims of sex abuse , drug addiction and Aids problems . |
| 29 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 30 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |