Example sentences of "set [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After electrification in 1966 , the Bletchley train continued to pick up at Loughton , but not to set down at night . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal then [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 9 , 18–19 , set out its own opinion on the matter , which it is convenient now to set out at length : |
| 3 | To reach this desolate spot you set off at sun-up and head toward mountain ranges which scarcely ever get closer . |
| 4 | In the days when unemployment in parts of East Cleveland was up to 90 per cent , Tippett was invited to direct musical activities at special work camps set up at Boosbeck , largely to cultivate rough land . |
| 5 | Sessions need not be long : set up at dusk , fish a further three hours after that and you 'll see that after school/work sessions are quite possible on waters not too far distant . |
| 6 | Illegal immigrants would be expelled using chartered transport after being housed in camps set up at ports and airports . |
| 7 | They set out at dusk on 13 September and soon discovered that they were in the wrong wadi . |
| 8 | my Lord you 'll find the facts of the case , er set out at pages three to six , the character of the programme is described starting at three D |
| 9 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
| 10 | The appeal was set down at Bristol , which is the nearest High Court centre where family business is taken but there was no High Court judge then sitting at Bristol , or indeed anywhere else on the Western Circuit . |
| 11 | I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres . |
| 12 | The auto gearbox refuses to take the revcounter needle anywhere near the red line ( and that 's set only at 4500rpm ) , which means the chances of kicking down into a lower gear are limited , making A-road overtaking manoeuvres more ponderous than they should be and knocking a substantial hole in the cruising speed when you meet a hill . |
| 13 | In my view , for reasons I have set forth at length elsewhere , I believe that the philosophy of animal rights is the right philosophy . |
| 14 | After some delay , Western Electric equipment was set up at Victor 's studios in Camden , New Jersey . |
| 15 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 16 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 17 | Edward of England had ordered an advance headquarters to be set up at Bamborough in Northumberland , with levies from all over the North of England to assemble there ; he himself was expected to arrive there in late March or early April , to lead his assault on Scotland in person . |
| 18 | " Committees for justice " were to be set up at grassroots level in an attempt to alleviate mass unemployment , de-industrialization , the destruction of agriculture and the " humiliation " of east Germans . |
| 19 | A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures . |
| 20 | A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch . |
| 21 | In 1950 , when the Haskin 's Laboratory was set up at Yale University , it was thought to be a 5 year project to produce a box which could perform these two computations . |
| 22 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 23 | ABOVE A dream-telepathy experiment being set up at Maimonudes laboratory in Brooklyn New York . |
| 24 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 25 | The first stocking frame in the county was set up at Hinckley in 1640 by William Iliffe , and the town has prospered on hosiery manufacturing ever since . |
| 26 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 27 | Speed of access may also be worse , as the links between relations are set up at run time and not at data definition time . |
| 28 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |
| 29 | This was the second such " traffic-light coalition " ( Ampelcoalition ) to be set up at Land level in Germany , after that in Brandenburg [ see p. 37762 ] . |
| 30 | An emergency parachute operation will be set up at Hullavington but the consequences of the fire go deeper . |