Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 2 | When it opened Tendring and Colchester were recognised blackspots for teenage pregnancies and the clinic was set up expressly to reduce the number of gymslip mums . |
| 3 | Clearinghouses were set up primarily to overcome the isolation of individual practitioners within their own national boundaries . |
| 4 | We consider the rationale and the manner of the legal profession 's projection of an image of altruism and focus upon one legal service , the duty solicitor scheme , which was set up ostensibly to serve the community . |
| 5 | According to tradition , it was founded by Joshua at the time of the miraculous crossing of the river , and twelve sacred stones were set up there to commemorate the event ( Josh. |
| 6 | There are now two active groups of doctors and a group for nurses which were set up specifically to oppose the use of animals in medical research on the grounds that it is unscientific . |
| 7 | For the untrained , keeping tabs on this type of equipment , both technically and administratively , can be difficult , but Powersafe has been set up specifically to manage the inspection and testing of electrical installations and equipment used in industry , commerce and public utilities . |
| 8 | A recent study by Brown and his colleagues ( 1986b ) in Walthamstow , North London , was set up specifically to explore the intervening links between childhood parental loss and adult depression . |
| 9 | This unit had been set up originally to refine the art of specific writing for Television ; either by seeking out works of literature suitable for adaption , or by commissioning new material and applying it to the ‘ TV-writing art form ’ . |
| 10 | A restoration lab was set up nearby to treat the bronzes immediately they came out of the water to prevent deterioration . |
| 11 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 12 | The exception occurs in the region of the keel where the core is set back further to clear the outboard ends of the floors . |