Example sentences of "set [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 2 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 3 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 4 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 5 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 6 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 7 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 8 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
| 9 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 10 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 11 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 12 | However , money has been set aside for a refurbishment programme across the group 's 30 hotels . |
| 13 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 14 | The 12 days between April 15th and April 26th were set aside for a ‘ points of light celebration of service ’ . |
| 15 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 16 | The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned . |
| 17 | An addition to Rotterdam 's World Trade Center was built in 1986–87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite . |
| 18 | They can only be set aside for a time . |
| 19 | An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts . |
| 20 | The 1990–91 figure of £50,000 under Continuing Education was set aside for a pupillage sinking fund . |
| 21 | The site 's about to be developed by Tarmac Construction , but Thamesdown Media Arts wants part of it to be set aside for a museum , telling the story — the whole story — of those who worked there . |
| 22 | I hope , therefore , in the new session of Parliament , time will be set aside for a debate on current conditions in , and the future of , Northern Ireland prisons . |
| 23 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 24 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 25 | With no back-up flap system the aeroplane is set up for a slightly flatter flapless approach at 130 knots . |
| 26 | Social groups are often deliberately set up for a purpose . |
| 27 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |
| 28 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 29 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 30 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |