Example sentences of "of set " in BNC.

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1 According to Sotheby 's expert they were of different dates … of different styles , by different hands , the sort of set anyone could put together at any time …
2 and I , I , probably only a youngster then , well I was about twenty six or seven , but er , I shall never forget her fingers were like claws she could n't move them they 'd sort of set
3 I know , but you 've got to sort of set your sights realistically have n't you ? and there 's a lot
4 Erm , I 'll take down the other , the main agenda cos we 've we 've sort of set up a special group for the .
5 to sort of set out what we 're gon na do and er
6 I 'm quite kind of set
7 And it looks a little bit sort of set up having that totally different stool brought into the picture .
8 Whereas if you think your offspring are not gon na be particularly successful , you should have female offspring because they always get , get mated in this kind of , in this kind of set up .
9 subject I sometimes wonder if sometimes the Tory politicians are like Jehovah 's Witnesses really , they sort of set out into battle and say go out and convert these people , we 're gon na slam the door on them .
10 it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really .
11 And then sort of set those two on the side and then go onto products Sorry , quotients .
12 And the front wall that sort of set back one ?
13 The one line sort of sets it all off , you can remember .
14 He had first been found guilty of setting fire to an armoured personnel carrier commandeered by students and a car during the 19898 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing .
15 They remain dedicated to the task of setting up a group of integrated schools as a sector of education complementary to the existing system .
16 You need to make a point of setting yourself tasks to do in order to keep on top line and to improve your flying .
17 You should think in terms of setting yourselves goals .
18 Indeed there is a strong case for using it generally , even among lower quality systems when the lack of setting up is taken into account .
19 At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service .
20 It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence .
21 I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it .
22 The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution .
23 In many ways , it 's the most radical BMW you can buy , with styling that , for the time being , bucks the house style , a chassis that refuses to oversteer and a facia that follows a trend instead of setting one .
24 Then , realizing the cost and risk of setting up an American operation only for his own films , he backtracked and arranged for US to handle his company 's big-budget pictures .
25 Under the Government 's scheme , the Treasury will meet the costs of setting up and running a private company owned by banks to administer it .
26 ‘ I have no intention of wiping out the WPBSA or of setting up an alternative governing body , ’ Hearn said .
27 Mr Miroslav Stepan , the politburo member who has been accused of setting the riot police on the demonstrators , has been charged .
28 The Lord Chancellor said that the new conveyancing scheme , ‘ seems to me to show what the Law Society can do by way of setting appropriate standards of service to the public .
29 In your report on the Post Office ( December 15th ) you claim that the principle of setting price according to costs led Rowland Hill to favour a national stamp price .
30 I 'm thinking of setting up a kiln here , just for my own amusement . ’
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