Example sentences of "[prep] setting out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 2 | After setting out the facts , the judgment of the Court of Appeal , delivered by Lord Lane C.J. , first dealt with and dismissed an argument for the respondent based on chapter 29 of Magna Carta 1225 ( 9 Hen . |
| 3 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 4 | Christine , a graduate trainee with London Belgravia Group , collected her award at St James 's Palace — seven years after setting out to gain her bronze . |
| 5 | AN RAF air-sea rescue helicopter today joined a massive search for three young men who disappeared in a small speedboat after setting out on a two-hour trip along the west Wales coast . |
| 6 | Oh I 'm sorry my Lord perhaps I could read the passage out and then er I can hand it up to your Lordship but it after setting out the dictor from Mr Justice in the Midland Bank . |
| 7 | She had disappeared after setting out to buy a loaf of bread from a shop near her home . |
| 8 | She had disappeared after setting out to buy a loaf of bread from a shop near her home . |
| 9 | Two and a quarter hours after setting out . |
| 10 | The journey was conceived and prepared through a Scottish winter with the idea of setting out in the spring . |
| 11 | Once these difficult decisions have been taken , the mechanics of setting out the budget are a relatively simple matter of listing the details of the year 's spending plan . |
| 12 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 13 | Some firms find the problem of setting out hourly rates some-what daunting . |
| 14 | This raid , on Guernsey in the Channel Islands , by some 100 men from 3 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company ( sometimes referred to as No. 11 Commando ) was well rehearsed , and after last-minute changes of plan , literally within half an hour of setting out , the raiders boarded two destroyers to transfer to motorboats refuelled from the parent ships they accompanied . |
| 15 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 16 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 17 | unc In each case , multiplying follows the usual method of setting out . |
| 18 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 19 | Here you can see the advantage of having a neat hand and a tidy way of setting out your work . |
| 20 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 21 | A junior with a big interest in meeting people [ according to his Appraisal ] was given the task of setting out packs of account opening cards , Special Savings forms and passbooks and a couple of credit card application forms for good measure . |
| 22 | However , the weakness of setting out to find a compromise is that each side assumes at the start that its own view is the one to be preferred . |
| 23 | We shall postpone until Chapter 3 the task of setting out the full array of intensional patterns which are expressed in the syntactic structures involving English adjectives . |
| 24 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 25 | Thank you very much indeed , I think that 's fairly fair , but none-the-less honest way of setting out your feelings . |
| 26 | The final part of the chapter is concerned with setting out the monetarist challenge to Keynesian economics and with comparing Keynesian and monetarist policy recommendations . |
| 27 | The heart of the book was a chapter on ‘ The Historian At Work ’ which I do believe was original in setting out the processes which historians go through , from discovering and analysing sources to producing written history at different levels . |
| 28 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 29 | Almost apologetically , Mr Coughlin conceded that ‘ Britain also has been less diligent than some of its neighbours in setting out a timetable for reducing nitrate in water ’ . |
| 30 | The House of Lords case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA ( 1985 ) is important in setting out the basic principle . |