Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 and er they set off in hot pursuit .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions .
8 Now Tygavac is linking up with the growing network of Application Support Centres , set up in close proximity to customers to provide sealants and coatings , being established in Europe by Courtaulds Aerospace .
9 Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development .
10 * The Left Bloc , set up in late January 1992 , comprised the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ( KSCM " led by Jiri Svoboda ) , the Democratic Left Movement , the Left Alliance and the Movement for Social Justice .
11 He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to .
12 Then , in 1886 , he returned to Vienna and set up in private practice as a consultant on nervous diseases .
13 Most of the overwintered hives had survived , with the help of bread soaked in ale every couple of weeks , and now they were unwrapped , one or two at a time in case of a late frost , and set up in sheltered corners .
14 In 1893 Scott set up in independent practice .
15 From now on , every rehearsal should be arranged and set up in this way , so that your band will sound the same every time you rehearse .
16 After the war in 1920 , the National Bus Company set up in some strength and began to run various routes .
17 In 1954 he published Archaeology from the Earth , an instruction book on field archaeology ; many modern excavation techniques have their origins in the principles that Wheeler set out in that book .
18 The powers of the region were never as far-reaching ( or set out in such detail ) as was the case in the English counties prior to the 1980 Act .
19 However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments .
20 The paper set out in diagrammatic form a view of the factors causing an urban underclass ( see Figure 4. 1 ) .
21 This view was echoed by a BBC director general , Alasdair Milne , who remarked that the prescriptions for broadcasting set out in previous eras — even only a matter of a decade or so ago — were of little value in a rapidly changing social and political environment .
22 Er and the other point which e you might like to comment is are they in effect set out in any order of precedence .
23 Even this , however , was neither central to his thinking nor set out in any detail .
24 At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction .
25 I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on .
26 His religion did not prove a handicap , although his scrupulous conscience never made life easy for him , and his philosophy of broadcasting , set out in neat lectures , was very different from that of Greene , or of Baron Hill of Luton , his first chairman .
27 Also provided always that will not be obliged to assist with or take over the conduct of any proceedings which are principally based upon allegations of negligence , breach of contract , or other acts or omissions by , nor will be obliged to indemnify in the manner set out in this clause in relation to any such proceeding ;
28 A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign .
29 5.1.1 to pay the rents on the days and in the manner set out in this Lease and not to exercise or seek to exercise any right or claim to withhold rent or any right or claim to legal or equitable set-off
30 The goal here is to illustrate the general contention set out in this book that in order to use regions in geography ( as against practising regional geography ) it is necessary to appreciate what the salient features of a region ( or place ) are — some of which may be more important to particular research tasks than others .
  Next page