Example sentences of "set [adv prt] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 2 | Often these representations are made by the Faculty of the Institute alone , but wherever it is considered beneficial , submissions are made in conjunction with other professional bodies and , indeed , the Tax Faculty is represented on a number of joint bodies set up for this purpose . |
| 3 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 4 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 5 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 6 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 7 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 8 | They would use this time to seek a university job , helped by a coordinating body , KAI , set up for this purpose . |
| 9 | The Gracious Speech is that annual event when our Queen and her Government set out for this Parliament those national and international policies that are in the best interests of the United Kingdom , and only the United Kingdom , whether they relate to domestic legislation , to our defence commitments or to those foreign policy objectives which , to quote my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary , protect and promote the British interest . |