Example sentences of "set [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His real fear was that the interloper might set down roots and eventually steal the bulk of his clientele . |
| 2 | Local authorities now have four main sources of funds for capital expenditure : borrowing , which is subject to approval by central government ; capital grants , also from central government , which will specify the purposes for which they are to be used , and the amount the local authority must itself contribute ; capital receipts , from the sale of assets such as land and council houses , though the local authorities must first set aside 50% of these receipts ( 75% in the case of council house sales ) towards repaying their debts ; and ordinary revenue from the Community Charge , etc. , for which the government assumes the local authorities to be accountable to their voters ( CIPFA , 1990 , Chapter 20.3 ; HM Treasury , 1990 , Chapter 21 , Paras . |
| 3 | Until recently it was assumed that this was the final signal concerning the Cossacks before the repatriations actually began , giving Eighth Army 's authorization for those Cossacks who were Soviet citizens to be handed over , even though it did not explicitly set aside AFHQ 's previous ruling that " force has not , repeat not , to be used " . |
| 4 | In contrast to the Western system , there was no power in the Supreme Court to question or set aside legislation passed or decreed by the government . |
| 5 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
| 6 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
| 7 | Lord Denning recognised that " in our constitutional theory Parliament is supreme but he saw the judges as the real " guardians of our constitution " and he felt that they ought to be able to pronounce on the validity of the conventions and " ought to have a power of judicial review of legislation similar to that in the United States : whereby the judges can set aside statutes which are contrary to our unwritten constitution — in that they are repugnant to reason or to fundamentals " . |
| 8 | The court may set aside proceedings , including any step taken in the proceedings and any judgment , order or document therein , on the grounds of non-compliance with the Rules . |
| 9 | You will need to plan and set aside time for shopping , preparation , and consumption of meals . |
| 10 | Richard says even businessmen should set aside time for romance . |
| 11 | Although one of the gowns sent by Tamar was quite deep brown in colour , the other was of a pretty shade of blue , which would set off Martha 's eyes , which were the same deep blue as her father 's . |
| 12 | The close relationship of light and radiant heat was discovered at the turn of the century in infra-red radiation , and that between light and chemical affinity in the ultra-violet rays which will set off reactions . |
| 13 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 14 | ‘ Today , ’ the colonel continued , ‘ we march towards Ypres where we will set up camp before beginning a new and I believe final assault on the German front . |
| 15 | What began as a hobby took over his life and though Joan did n't have the same initial enthusiasm , she helped him set up Woodstock Exotics in 1983 and now she becomes so fond of some of the plants she wo n't be parted from them ! |
| 16 | As I said you ca n't envisage or set up emergency procedures for anything as as drastic as what happened there that night . |
| 17 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 18 | ‘ We must set up processes of measurement which give us the basis for improvement targetting and monitoring progress . |
| 19 | It reaffirmed that LEAs must set up education committees and appoint a chief education officer , but the Secretary of State need no longer be consulted about the appointment of the latter . |
| 20 | The only conditions are that nature should sometimes set up games of Prisoner 's Dilemma , that the shadow of the future should be long , and that the games should be nonzero sum games . |
| 21 | We can set up JIT programs , perform subassembly . |
| 22 | There is no limit to the wants we can express in language and hence we may well set up problems that are impossible to solve because they require the resolution of contradictions . |
| 23 | Grouped in a holding called System-Kontakt , they will set up deals between east and west . |
| 24 | We 'd set up home wherever we were . ’ |
| 25 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 26 | It demanded interest and commitment on the part of the workers to try and set up respite fostering or other more integrated arrangements as an alternative . |
| 27 | DSR will set up manufacturing at its facility in San Diego where it integrates AT&T 3B2s and hangs PCs off them . |
| 28 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 29 | You can also set up options to go via a certain station . |
| 30 | I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies . |