Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] 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 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 4 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 5 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 6 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 7 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 8 | I met a boy in his mid-twenties , from Kentucky , who had come to New York to set up as a dentist . |
| 9 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 10 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 11 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 12 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 13 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
| 14 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 15 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 18 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 19 | One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management . |
| 20 | For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment . |
| 21 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 22 | You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life . |
| 23 | Railway transition curves are usually related to the velocity cubed — a cubic curve is comparatively easy to set out with a theodolite . |
| 24 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 25 | TDS.3 was asked to set about considering a means of taking a Jeep ( 3,000lb ) or even a Valentine tank ( 14 tons ! ) into battle under a detachable rotorhead ! |
| 26 | Is erm , set down as a related document form there or ? |
| 27 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 28 | But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) . |
| 29 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 30 | The two men set off down a narrow path which traversed the slope diagonally . |