Example sentences of "set down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You need to set down at the start what you expect to achieve .
2 Is erm , set down as a related document form there or ?
3 According to the ADC , in the cases quoted by councils the properties by and large fulfilled all the principal criteria set down by the Government for a property suitable for occupation by older people , ie that it was let to persons over pensionable age ; access was relatively easy ; the accommodation was on level ground ; the dwelling had no more than two bedrooms ; the heating arrangements were adequate ; the property was reasonably conveniently located .
4 Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified .
5 These are arrived at using criteria set down by the Joint Negotiating Committee for Chief Officers of Local Authorities .
6 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 .
7 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 ) .
8 we set down in a passing-place and basked
9 ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ .
10 To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria .
11 Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’
12 These principles expand upon the basic standards set down in the rules of Conduct and indicate the standards which members should seek to achieve in the interests of good practice .
13 And he can safely set down to the Spirit 's guidance anything which brings Jesus into sharper focus .
14 Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere .
15 The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean .
16 The sound of a glass being set down on a table , then a door closing .
17 For , all in the instant of his book and glass being set down on a nearby table ‘ You 're afraid of me , Fabia ? ’ he demanded to know in a straightforward , no nonsense manner .
18 Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table .
19 And yet that inn , the Hotel de perigord , being set down by the Dronne , is on the outskirts of Aubeterre. for Aubeterre is a hilltown , set on a chalky cliff above the river ( whence the name — Aubeterre , Alba Terra ) .
20 Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning .
21 In the ever changing conditions of real life the clinician would adjust any regimen to the patient 's particular needs ; in contrast , the researcher would do his or her best to make the patient conform with the standard set down by the protocol .
22 The new constitution would , however , have to conform to a series of guidelines to be set down by the SLORC .
23 If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world .
24 Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand .
25 Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement .
26 The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside .
27 She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine .
28 She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees .
29 Read every word and study the plans , before and after your survey , and if you do not understand any point , or if what you see or have seen is at variance with what is set down in the documents , then it is VITAL that you consult your solicitor before exchanging contracts .
30 Not surprisingly , then , their package of proposals for constitutional change has much in common with the perspective set down in the last section .
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