Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it . |
| 2 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 3 | Courts would be involved in pre-trial procedure much more actively than at present in attempting to keep the parties to proposed new timetables , whilst allowing for a realistic degree of relaxation by the court , and permitting the parties to vary particular time limits by agreement , subject always to the obligation to have the case ready for trial and set down within the overall timetable . |
| 4 | It will also be permissible for parties to vary particular time limits by agreement , subject always to the obligations to have the case ready for trial and set down within the overall timetable . |
| 5 | A profound depression set in at the same time , despite the fact that she knew her bowel symptoms could now be controlled quite easily . |
| 6 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 7 | The premature declarations of imminent victory and raising of empty hopes contained the germ of the inevitable decline in confidence which set in during the following weeks , as the news from the eastern Front told a different story . |
| 8 | Clauses 70 to 73 provide for the introduction of the council tax set separately by the regional , islands and district councils in respect of dwellings in their areas . |
| 9 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 10 | The address position is formed with the weight set more to the left side , leaning into the slope in order to gain stability and balance . |
| 11 | It has a basic negentropic ( formative and organising ) effect even as heat increases , and therefore is the opposite of entropy which is the disintegration and disorganisation of matter set forth by the Second Law of Thermodynamics , which it thereby violates . |
| 12 | This reluctance to accept death as a ‘ natural ’ and inevitable stage in the cycle of life recalls the doctrine set forth in the Old Testament and enshrined in orthodox Christian teaching . |
| 13 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 14 | Following two days ' rest Venables and Renshaw set off for a final attempt taking a more direct line , avoiding sections of 70 degree snow and ice by passages of rock and mixed climbing . |
| 15 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 16 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 17 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 18 | DALY , John : When rookie pro ‘ Long ’ John Daly set off for the 1991 US PGA Championship , he did n't even know whether he would get to play . |
| 19 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
| 20 | Wilcock set off for the New World . |
| 21 | After a few minutes Crabb returned to the jetty for some extra weights to overcome his buoyancy and , having fitted these to his satisfaction , set off for the Russian cruiser . |
| 22 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 23 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 24 | At the same time , on the other side of the range , Christophe Moulin , a 33-year-old guide from Briancon , set off for the first solo ascent ( and incidentally the first repeat ) of Jean-Marc Boivin 's Ballade Au Clair du Lune : a hooks-and-copperheads A4 on the south face of the Fou . |
| 25 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 26 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 27 | Rather later than planned Rain set off for the Old Mitre pub . |
| 28 | Mrs Major 's party set off for the northern half of the seat to goad the faithful and stir the idle while Mr Major toured the south . |
| 29 | The day was held for customers and staff who in groups of three , set off for an 18-hole Stableford competition ( I 'm told this will mean something to golfers ! ) |
| 30 | He simply set off with no further glance at her , and Jenna seethed . |