Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " 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 | According to Dr Richard Earle , director of the IOS , accelerated ageing is most likely to set in between 40 and 50 , with women ageing faster during this decade than men ( an average of eighteen years compared to fifteen ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Also issued on Oct. 26 , a decree granted foreign investors ( individual or corporate ) the right to set up on Soviet soil a 100 per cent foreign-owned enterprise , or to buy a shareholding in existing Soviet enterprises . |
| 11 | The government 's policy paper contained provisions for state-aided settlement schemes to encourage black farmers to set up on 485,000 hectares of government land . |
| 12 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 13 | It takes about half an hour to set up for 2 shots , which will take up about 5 seconds each on screen . |
| 14 | Small firms have traditionally found it difficult to set up in rural areas , despite the need for job creation and economic diversification , and this Circular is designed to help them by , for example , relaxing the conditions over the re-use of redundant agricultural buildings . |
| 15 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 16 | And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After only four months at home , Leopold decided to set out on another , longer tour , this time to Paris and London . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But if not that , then many critics would like to be dictators of literature , to regulate the past , and to set out with quiet authority the future direction of the art . |
| 21 | For some years schemes have existed to encourage teachers to set out like Victorian missionaries to explore the strange and wild territory of industry and to convert its leaders to an acceptance of the virtues of education . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Lord Roskill 's comment on Reg. v. Lawrence is , however , not the only difficulty presented by his speech in Reg. v. Morris , but before I consider other difficulties it is necessary to set out in short form the facts of the two cases considered in that speech . |
| 24 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 25 | But there are two reasons why it is advisable to set out in full the reasons and facts upon which the appeal is based . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods , under their leader Zeus , supposedly located on Mount Olympus , who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises . |
| 29 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 30 | However , in the late 1970s they stated quite categorically that they were not able to take an initiative on the priorities set down in national policy . |