Example sentences of "set [adv prt] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 I met a boy in his mid-twenties , from Kentucky , who had come to New York to set up as a dentist .
2 ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work .
3 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 ?
4 He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer .
5 All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Is erm , set down as a related document form there or ?
9 I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race .
10 yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ?
11 The reason for this difference is very much because of its funding : set up as a developmental project it needed to test the market for its services without putting too many financial obstacles in the way of the users of the services .
12 Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position .
13 They thought then that they would set out as an army and conquer the rest of the land and rule over it ; that was their mission .
14 Verses 8–10 : if a man died childless , his brother was duty bound to raise heirs to him by his widow ( set out as the Levirate law , Deuteronomy 25:5 ) .
15 Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two .
16 Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again .
17 LAMDA ( London Academy of Music and Drama ) runs a one-year course for overseas students only , which although not set up as a post-graduate course may include a number of students with extensive university theatre experience as well as some professional experience .
18 AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry .
19 You 've set up as a designer in your own right , Gary ! ’
20 There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders .
21 In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement .
22 Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude .
23 When set up as a Novell 3.11 file server the DC-2031 cached IDE host card only really made its presence felt on the 128Kb Sequential Read Test , improving performance by about 15 per cent .
24 Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school .
25 The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification .
26 I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank .
27 I think that 's what we 're aiming to do now , get things set up as a standard er , operating erm , levels , having done that then we begin
28 Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers .
29 ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors .
30 David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said .
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