Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 2 | He showed us his collection of guns , taking them down from their racks and handing them out to us as if we were about to set off on some dangerous mission . |
| 3 | Bear in mind that we can keep changing our goals — but unless we have a destination in mind , we are unlikely to set off at all . |
| 4 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 5 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 6 | I think it will a long way , but you 're quite to draw it to us , and to ask us to set out on that road . |
| 7 | After only four months at home , Leopold decided to set out on another , longer tour , this time to Paris and London . |
| 8 | And if he had to set out on this nonsensical journey to the Fire Court with the Humans , it would be as well to just stock up a bit for his return . |
| 9 | It is unnecessary for the purposes of this judgment to set out in any detail the content of these articles : it is sufficient to say that they question the propriety of certain investments made by the council of moneys in its superannuation fund , with Mr. Bookbinder as the prime mover , in three deals with Mr. Oyston or companies controlled by him . |
| 10 | It is therefore useful to set out in some detail the position as it was prior to the 1980 Local Government , Planning and Land Act . |
| 11 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 12 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 13 | Then , anything might set in after that job . " |
| 14 | I was instructed to leave my prejudices behind and simply concentrate on having a good time , so I set off with that one idea in mind . |
| 15 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 16 | They set off at half past five in Charlotte 's car . |
| 17 | The hotelier can set up for any number of different plans , for example , golf weekends , leisure breaks , family rates , and so forth |
| 18 | Having said that , in order to get into production , or even to use it , you ca n't just set up in those days any more than you can today , now you need planning permission to , you need . |
| 19 | Fifty to eighty percent of my time goes to meetings , either with one of my engineers or in development meetings , or in planning functions , or — we have a series of meetings set up with this group since they provide a service to us — and oh , I do n't know — ten to twenty percent of my time [ is spent ] on the phone … and the rest of my time , either in filling out forms that I have to fill out or thinking , sometimes . |
| 20 | In the same way , key performance indicators set up for each function are reviewed quarterly against its business plan with relevant managers ‘ but it 's not a dull , dry event : it 's when everybody pulls together , discussing everything that 's happening in great depth and giving managers the opportunity to explain to directors why they 're falling short , the constraints and obstacles , and so achieving agreement with the figures and the indicators used , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Often these representations are made by the Faculty of the Institute alone , but wherever it is considered beneficial , submissions are made in conjunction with other professional bodies and , indeed , the Tax Faculty is represented on a number of joint bodies set up for this purpose . |
| 22 | Industrial tribunals were established under s.12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 with a narrow jurisdiction to consider appeals against the levy on employers to finance the industrial training boards set up under that Act . |
| 23 | I set up beside that . |
| 24 | In particular , stresses set up in such samples can be relieved in all directions whereas stresses in bedrock are much more concentrated since the rock is confined both laterally and vertically . |
| 25 | Set back from these two , on the middle bay of the original W front , is the soaring W wall topped with a machicolation and entered by the fine late Romanesque and early Gothic doorway with its 13th century tympanum of Christ and the Four Beasts , its unusually long foliaged lintel with four Latin rhyming couplets and a lucid signature by Bernardus DE III VIIS ( de Tréviers ) dated 1178 , and the powerful bas-reliefs of SS Paul and Peter , with sword and keys , all carved in various marbles from antique sources . |
| 26 | And again á propos Postmodernism : ‘ Nor does the argument set out in this section imply the dismissal of all recent works — including those described as ‘ Postmodern ’ — — as worthless rubbish . |
| 27 | A draft Treasury Order to be published later this year will set out in more detail which agricultural goods and activities will be covered . |
| 28 | In sum , I conclude from the whole of the considerations set out above that , whilst international law imposes certain obligations on the member states in point of the registration of vessels , they are fairly vague . |
| 29 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 30 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |