Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 2 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 3 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 4 | There is formality … such as the Elizabethan knot garden , with its tiny box hedging … and the walk of Lime trees.But such order simply helps to set off the flower borders which overflow with colour.Here can be found a blue and white monkshood … the towering flower spikes of acanthus , commonly known as bears britches … crimson penstemon blooms , and the perennially popular day lily . |
| 5 | Howard is wearing a very pale grey suit , with a pale blue shirt and a white silk tie , to set off the suntan he has acquired in the country . |
| 6 | When the cap burns it creates a sufficiently high temperature to set off the dynamite . |
| 7 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 8 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 9 | One needed a little dullness , to set off the buoyancy , the festivity , the movement . |
| 10 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 11 | Well if one of those flats is for you , here 's just the thing to set off the view from the window . |
| 12 | When working on such designs , it is important to choose a background with as much texture as possible , and a fairly substantial frame to set off the design . |
| 13 | At the point where the program is trying to set up the tutorial files it reports that it is unable to find ‘ Festina Text ’ and skips the entire operation . |
| 14 | Four days previously we had arrived on the glacier to set up the tent and learned a lot during that long , cold night , when temperatures plummeted to 25 deg C below . |
| 15 | As a result , President FRanois Mitterrand 's support for Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's policy on German reunification at Strasbourg was dependent on the West Germans agreeing to set up the government conference by the end of next year . |
| 16 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 17 | Exploratory 's trustees want to raise £2 million from industry ( their main target is computer firms ) to set up the centre and guarantee its future for at least three years . |
| 18 | Janice was put forward for the competition after raising money to set up the centre . |
| 19 | The text of their draft resolution will ask the secretary general , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , to study ways to set up the court . |
| 20 | I said we was sent to set up the seating and the pulpit . ’ |
| 21 | The drawback , inevitably , is that everything is dependent upon the existence of a CAB in the area , its willingness to set up the scheme , and the co-operation of the local profession . |
| 22 | But because of the cash required the Town Hall wants to join forces with other major employers to set up the scheme . |
| 23 | As Prince and Starky told their followers to sell their lands and give them the money , in 1849 they were able to set up the Agapemone , the ‘ Abode of Love ’ , on land they had bought in the village of Spaxton , near Charlynch . |
| 24 | The small amount of finance used to set up the company came from Garrett 's personal savings . |
| 25 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 26 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 27 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 28 | When we left to set up the course the total had crept up to about 30 . |
| 29 | Totten , peeved at being dropped to the bench , bounced into action late on too to set up the masterpiece . |
| 30 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |