Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |
| 2 | I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment . |
| 3 | I set up the and I like how its done |
| 4 | And then on the other hand , I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities , and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of youth club type evening provision in the town . |
| 5 | I set off and we had a taxi because it was terrible and I thought oh well , we had a lovely weekend , I 'm not going to er spoil it by being soaking wet getting to Piccadilly station . |
| 6 | Erm I 'll be I 'll be very brief because I set out Selby District 's views in in my written subm submission , but basically , strict interpretation of of this particular criterion , would clearly eliminate substantial parts of Selby District which is affected by the development of the coal field . |
| 7 | These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area . |
| 8 | erm , where I set out my interpretation of what that means , and I do n't think it 's very helpful to read that out to you , but I think you will find that it 's er erm a very broad er description of what the new settlement should be seeking to achieve , now Mr erm I think has misunderstood our position on this question of erm the appropriate size for the new settlement , and I think if I 'm correct he suggested that we were promoting a a size of fourteen hundred , the point I think I would make is that the larger the new settlement erm the greater the range and the quality of services and facilities that can be provided , and I think you have to distinguish between what developers say they are prepared to provide , on the one hand in a new settlement , whatever the size , the quality of the retail or recreational social facility that occupies that physical provision , and also its long term viability , and I would suggest that a larger new settlement of the size that we are suggesting , is much more likely to er attract a range of quality providers of services and facilities than a smaller new settlement , and also Mr Grantham er raised the issue of the question of the development program , and what might be expected in terms of services and erm during the development program , and of course I think that would be a matter for any specific proposal , or a ma a matter of discussion between the local planning authority concerned and the developer , and I would expect it to be something erm that was included within a section one O six agreement . |
| 9 | Can I , I would like to change the wording of the er amendment and I 'm grateful to Mr for the advice he gave because I think by erm a slightly shorter and er er brisker wording I can achieve the objectives that I set out to achieve . |
| 10 | In section three erm I set out erm my basis for the valuation of all those criterion for each of the sectors and basically I 've adopted erm a fourth grade evaluation of each of the factors and you 'll see on table one , which is contained within section two , erm the er the summary of that consideration . |
| 11 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 12 | I set out the views of the membership below . |
| 13 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 14 | Eagerly I set about to free it from its rubble prison . |
| 15 | One bright sunny morning recently I set about painting the front of the house with its yearly coat of white paint to smarten it up . |
| 16 | Course it was the Butler Act of nineteen forty four which set up this three stage |
| 17 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 18 | So you 've got you 've got things which set up or stimulate the behaviour or the decision . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |
| 21 | Clearly the diagram the the the table in Mr 's proof where he refers to the traffic figures , th those are taken indeed from our own er committee report er to members which set out er the relief at various points , six points on the highway network , for the outer route compared er with the inner routes . |
| 22 | Er you have er a substantial er appendix within your er agenda papers which set out proposals from the building 's policy panel which would help you to deal with some of those issues . |
| 23 | Maybe Billy himself set up Freddie the Lion to clear out the opposition in his own chosen patch . |
| 24 | He ordered Sergeant Yates to take the bulk of the party to the rendezvous , while he himself set off to reconnoitre the escarpment with Sergeant Tait . |
| 25 | Sandison himself set off in the opposite direction , towards his pensione . |
| 26 | Indeed , this is precisely what Russell Reynolds himself set out to achieve in modelling his business on top service organisations like Morgan Guaranty — where he had worked before entering search — and Morgan Stanley and McKinsey . |
| 27 | It is alleged by the fourth plea , that the defendant 's testator never requested the plaintiff to enter into the engagement to marry , or to marry , and that there never was any consideration for the testator 's promise , except what may be collected from the letter itself set out in the declaration . |
| 28 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 29 | She set up the business with a £4,000 bank loan and shortage of capital persuaded her to expand through franchising . |
| 30 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |