Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep on using lead free if the engine is not set properly after its recent service . |
| 2 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 3 | The 18th county has set off on its long journey in promising style , aided by a good press . |
| 4 | Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride . |
| 5 | He had no intention of staying by Hitler 's side in his Berlin bunker and instead set off for his own headquarters . |
| 6 | However , under SP7/89 , a parent company can surrender ACT that was previously set off against its mainstream tax liability in an assessment which had become final . |
| 7 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 8 | Thus it has been able to overcome the major hurdle of the possibility of losing top contacts and clients when it was set up on its own . |
| 9 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 10 | She knew that , after an initial period of gaining experience with a leading European firm , he had set up on his own . |
| 11 | There would be a trust or something probably set up for him that 's the normal |
| 12 | A housing task force has been set up under my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces and he is considering how we can use the existing housing stock to alleviate problems . |
| 13 | Networked computer facilities are set up into which any number of firms can be hooked . |
| 14 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 15 | She also got an inheritance from a family trust set up by her American great-grandmother , Frances Work . |
| 16 | No , he had been set up by his fellow conspirators . |
| 17 | It is understood the line was set up by his close friend Stephanie King , from Nottingham , but it is not yet clear whether Reggie Kray has broken any prison rules . |
| 18 | It is the official opening of a holiday camp for critically-ill children being set up by his close friend , Hollywood star Paul Newman . |
| 19 | But the god whose sleep had been disturbed was not yet appeased , and after the unfairness of indiscriminate punishment had been discussed , a system was set up in which some women avoided childbirth by entering religious orders , while others lost infants through disease , thus limiting the population . |
| 20 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 21 | Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people . |
| 22 | A memorial fund has been set up in his native village to build a monument to one of Ulster 's less remembered legion of fighting men . |
| 23 | After four years of discussion , the European Commission 's Open Microsystems Initiative is reported to have finally set out on its five year mission to develop next generation microprocessor and software technology , which will utilise both new and existing architectures . |
| 24 | On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany . |
| 25 | The Union 's case will be set out by their senior life member , Ken Harris , who said this week he will relinquish his post as a trustee . |
| 26 | The Government have a clear industrial policy which has been set out by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | Extracts from the forceful judgment of Wilson J. have been set out by my noble and learned friends , Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle . |
| 28 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |
| 29 | Hardy bog plants propagated earlier can be set out in their permanent positions at the poolside . |
| 30 | He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’ |