Example sentences of "a [noun sg] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 2 | This giant of a racehorse set off in last month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup — one of National Hunt racing 's blue riband events — with a heavy burden . |
| 3 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 4 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 5 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |
| 6 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 7 | He handed her a plate of freshly baked ensaimadas from a tray set out on a white linen cloth . |
| 8 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 9 | The helicopter and a standby vessel spotted a flare set off by the crew and stayed in the vicinity until the men were winched to safety by an RAF helicopter . |
| 10 | He was buried in the graveyard at St Luke 's Church , Whyteleafe , in Airmen 's Corner , a plot set aside for those who served at the nearby Kenley base and at Croydon . |
| 11 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 12 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 13 | The whole room has the feel of a place set out to be conventionally acceptable and — if such a word is appropriate in this Castle — almost friendly . |
| 14 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 15 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 16 | Architect Chris Butt and engineer Tony Ward were approached and a meeting set up in 1988 included them as well as city council and county council officers . |
| 17 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 18 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 19 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 20 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
| 21 | The subsequent withdrawal from empire , which flowed from these events , was carried out on a strategy set out in a Chiefs of Staff Paper which remained the military planners ' increasingly tattered bible until Roy Mason 's 1974 Defence review made British military strategy synonymous with NATO strategy . |
| 22 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 23 | The programme entitled " Socialism , Democracy , Progress " , written by Gorbachev and his aide , Georgii Shakhnazarov , after drafting by a commission set up at the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , unequivocally condemned Stalinism , and committed the party to forming a " controlled market economy " ( including the principle of private ownership ) , and to converting the Soviet Union into a " democratic federation of sovereign republics " , thereby recognizing " the principle of independence of the republican parties included in the CPSU " . |
| 24 | We described , at the beginning of this chapter , a society set up in 1801 to investigate the nature and cure of cancer . |
| 25 | In Uganda a centre set up in 1973 assumed control of many of the functions originally undertaken by the Institute . |
| 26 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 27 | A recording set up with a difference . |
| 28 | He won a competition set up in memory of Catherine Kenyon . |
| 29 | A DISABLED Courtaulds employee somewhere in the world will benefit from a fund set up for tragic computer expert . |
| 30 | THE proceeds of a fund set up in memory of a former MP will be used to maintain mountain footpaths in the Snowdonia National Park . |