Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 2 | Pursuant to the Practice Direction ( Transfer of Action ) [ 1991 ] WLR 643 ( see para 1.35 ) , every action set down under automatic directions will be examined within seven days by a master to determine whether a transfer should be considered . |
| 3 | The typical North memo , according to General Galvin , implied that ‘ a whole lot more is going to happen that was really intended to happen in there ’ ; a colleague said they were North 's equivalent of a Potemkin Village , set down in unreal Washington . |
| 4 | She closed her tired , bloodshot eyes and saw herself again as a young woman , buxom and pregnant , set down in wild bush country , her only asset a husband as young and as strong as herself . |
| 5 | You 've heard before that Leeds works within the rules of the framework set down by regional planning guidance , and that makes very and the main stream of that guidance is the revitalization of our inner areas . |
| 6 | It said that far too many teachers had the perception that unless they followed the good practice set down by local authority advisers , their career prospects in the city would be blighted . |
| 7 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 8 | In January 1968 Crawford and his family , which now included baby Lucy , set off for six months in Hollywood . |
| 9 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 10 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 11 | She looked round the deep red walls of the dining room , set off with black paintwork . |
| 12 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 13 | Courtesy of their arrangements with Air New Zealand , ‘ Pooler ’ set off on 10th July for the land of the ruck and the long white cloud . |
| 14 | The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles . |
| 15 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 16 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 17 | So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport . |
| 18 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |
| 19 | The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions . |
| 22 | Under the Income and Corporation Taxes Act ( TA ) 1988 , s343 , if certain conditions are satisfied , the tax losses of a trade can be transferred to a new company and set off against future profits of the same trade if conducted by the receiving company . |
| 23 | Except perhaps , another New Zealander , Professor Ernest Rutherford , who , at Manchester University , succeeded in splitting the atom and in the process started off a chain of events that would be even more shattering than that set off by two shots . |
| 24 | Such Koi have a bright yellow body , set off by white fins . |
| 25 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |
| 26 | The St Petersburg Assembly of Factory Workers , set up with official approval in February 1904 , broke loose from its sponsors and under the leadership of Father Gapon , a maverick but inspired orator , helped foster a virtual general strike in the capital . |
| 27 | There are three main ways you can do this ; you can continue at school , have a home tutor , or attend a special unit or project set up for pregnant school-girls and school-age mothers . |
| 28 | The police Holmes computor system , set up for major crime investigations , is being used to collate information from across Britain . |
| 29 | She told a London press conference that a raft of decisions had been announced and a tight timetable set up for future reforms , designed to prevent the spiral of decline predicted in the report if action were not taken . |
| 30 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |