Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 2 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 3 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 4 | A fund was set up for its restoration , but before the work could even be started the campanile collapsed . |
| 5 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 6 | Also , no hard data appear to be available giving a detailed breakdown of costs and savings associated with this new form of technology and work organisation , and it appears that , although there is spare capacity at Kalmar in the form of a second , as yet unworked , shift , when the new 760 model car was introduced in 1982 a new assembly line using conventional technology was set up for it at Gothenburg . |
| 7 | The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust |
| 8 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 9 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 10 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 11 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 12 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 13 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 14 | The following drill shows how this was set up for ( simplified ) Basari ( Togo ) : Once these simple drills are mastered then the noun phrase in the object slot could be expanded by the addition of one modifier at a time and drilled until all modifiers which may be affixed for concord with the noun have been drilled . |
| 15 | The erm management agency that was set up for tornado was structured and manned for that specific task . |
| 16 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |
| 17 | In 1988 about one case in 19 was set down for trial and for every 94 writs issued one case was determined by trial . |
| 18 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
| 19 | Sigarup was setting out for home . |
| 20 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 21 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |