Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the entire work , the accompaniment only picks up absolutely precisely on three occasions , and by the end I was all set metaphorically to murder the conductor ! |
| 2 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 3 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 4 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 5 | This year September and 12 , have been set aside to give the public a chance to visit important buildings that are usually private , and take part in guided tours , exhibitions and demonstrations throughout the province . |
| 6 | The ease and speed with which the acts of the Good Parliament were set aside revealed the strength of the court in the face of opposition from the commons and a group of discontented nobles . |
| 7 | And in preparing for his own comfortable future , Robert Maxwell plundered £1 billion , which had been set aside to secure the future of hundreds of his workers . |
| 8 | An allocation is usually set aside to cover the purchase of readers ' requests ( for older material ) . |
| 9 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 10 | The EC itself has not attached environmental conditions in the cases of Poland and Hungary , but Carlo Ripa di Meana , the EC Environment Commissioner , has insisted that a sum ( still to be agreed ) must be set aside to bring the East 's environment up to scratch and there are proposals for training environmental managers . |
| 11 | In July 1988 , a new organisation , the National Association of Software and Services Company ( Nasscom ) was set up to serve the interests of software sector . |
| 12 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 13 | Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs . |
| 14 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |
| 15 | Those contrary approaches , contrary calculations and contrary totals , the one nearly twice the other , had only to be set up to illustrate the difficulty of the problems in this case . |
| 16 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 17 | On April 3 it was announced that a fund would be set up to complement the introduction with effect from March 22 of a new penal code based on sharia ( Islamic ) law [ see p. 37995 ] . |
| 18 | Bright sparks Wyseplant 's new service , Powersafe , has been set up to manage the inspection and testing of electrical installations and equipment used in industry , commerce and public utilities in the UK |
| 19 | The " pillar " — not very large — consecrated by the oil is set up to commemorate the vision . |
| 20 | An audible ripple of laughter went round the court room as Brown denied vehemently that he had been ‘ set up to take the rap for the footballer ’ . |
| 21 | Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide . |
| 22 | In you review of the 486SX machines you state that ‘ once again it was set up to use the MS DOS device drivers ( HIMEM , MOUSE and SMARTDrive ) , although the ones that come with Windows 3.1 are much better ’ . |
| 23 | This emergency centre in Oxford was set up to coordinate the response to just such an incident . |
| 24 | In some societies the practical importance of dreams as portents of the future and as phenomena with mysterious healing properties was not only recognized but institutions were set up to exploit the fact . |
| 25 | Manfred von Richthofen , president of the West Berlin Federation , said a committee will be set up to examine the possibility of a bid from the city . |
| 26 | Manfred von Richthofen , president of the West Berlin Federation , said a committee will be set up to examine the possibility of a bid from the city . |
| 27 | Another proposal was that an independent commission would be set up to examine the question of racial discrimination . |
| 28 | The committee was set up to examine the principles that should govern GCE A level syllabuses and their assessment . |
| 29 | A commission headed by the newly appointed First Deputy Prosecutor General was set up to examine the incident . |
| 30 | The Lindop Inquiry was set up to examine the maintenance of standards in the polytechnics and colleges sector of UK higher education . |