Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Videopics has received inquiries from people hoping to set up in shopping centres and tourist spots , but is keen to stress the potential of running a franchise from home .
2 A company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( p 114 ) .
3 The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) .
4 He based his case on the EAT 's decision in Laughton v Bapp Industrial Supplies Ltd [ 1986 ] IRLR 245 , which said that an employee did not breach his duty of loyalty merely by indicating an intention to set up in competition with the employer in the future .
5 Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer .
6 The fact that Ian and I arrived first gives us priority , and it was extremely foolish of you to set up in opposition .
7 Other older husbands and wives had adapted their work ( by changing jobs ) to help a son who was trying to set up in farming .
8 ‘ And when you came back here after your father 's death , to set up in practice , did you resume a family relationship with the Garlands ? ’
9 The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked .
10 ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains .
11 Livewire helps young people aged 16–25 who want to set up in business .
12 Set up in agreement with the Board of Trade and the Department of Social Security , the ER scheme allows new entrepreneurs to set up in business for three months without losing any state benefits .
13 Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital .
14 Private Enterprise THE UNORTHODOX GREEK Why does a European middle manager choose to set up in business in Britain ?
15 For the two students some creative thinking provided the solution — to set up in business of their own .
16 So , too , were a number of producer co-operatives by workpeople determined to set up in business themselves whether , by competing with master manufacturers , to reinforce the effect of a strike ; or to counter a lock-out ; or in response to wage-cuts ; or simply to create jobs .
17 I explained about the shop ; I thought he might give me a loan to set up in business again … .
18 The Start Scheme operates on the basis that financial support is provided to an individual who wishes to set up in business for themselves .
19 After five years , Josiah was ready to set up in business on his own account , and in 1759 he established his own enterprise .
20 The defence counsel , Mark Stewart , said that Forman , a self-employed painter and decorator , had borrowed money from Glasgow loan-sharks to set up in business .
21 ‘ The right type of facilities need to be built in the area before companies can be attracted to set up in business .
22 For the purposes of this judgment it is unnecessary to set out in detail the concerns felt by the local authority about the placement of the four children with the foster mother .
23 For some assignments with less experienced clients it will be appropriate to set out in detail and at some length the scope of the MAS and KPMG involvement at each stage ; for more experienced clients a shorter approach may be appropriate .
24 For some assignments with less experienced clients it will be appropriate to set out in detail and at some length the scope of the MAS and KPMG involvement at each stage .
25 The constitution is not seen in the rosy terms set down in Chapter 1 , but neither is democracy seen in the new gloomy terms set down in Chapters 2 and 3 .
26 As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle .
27 I set off in pursuit .
28 Miss Logan made indeterminate gestures to the priest , then set off in pursuit of her employer .
29 NICK FALDO and Tom Kite , the reigning Open champions on both sides of the Atlantic , will meet ‘ head to head ’ when they set off in pursuit of the second major title of the golfing year in the US Open on Thursday .
30 We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack .
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