Example sentences of "a [noun] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 4 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 5 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 6 | On Jan. 17 Farah Aydid seized control of the city 's port from the Achamou , a militia set up by Mahdi Mohammed in August 1991 which had hitherto held aloof from the clan fighting . |
| 7 | As a male sets out along a branch , he leans over sideways , lifts one of his back legs and carefully expels a few drops of urine on to the sole of his foot . |
| 8 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |
| 9 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 10 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 11 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 12 | He handed her a plate of freshly baked ensaimadas from a tray set out on a white linen cloth . |
| 13 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 14 | copy prepared for a compositor setting out in detail all the typesetting instructions . |
| 15 | The helicopter and a standby vessel spotted a flare set off by the crew and stayed in the vicinity until the men were winched to safety by an RAF helicopter . |
| 16 | An organisation known as EAST , the Environment of Advanced Software Technology , has a team of 70 engineers ready to provide tools and support for software engineering and development projects : EAST operates out of the offices of SFGL , Boulogne , France , a subsidiary set up by Bull SA , CAP Sesa , Cisi , Sema Group and Steria back in 1985 to develop software engineering solutions for the whole software life-cycle . |
| 17 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |
| 18 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 19 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 20 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 21 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 22 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 23 | Additions to a file set up by loading in access frequency order will have a disproportionate effect on file access time ; this is because they will be of at least average activity and often more , as new records tend to be very active , but are loaded into a densely packed file . |
| 24 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 25 | Lee had recently been elected chairman of the Co-opted Resource Centre , a group set up by 21 conservative councillors within Legco following the election of liberal councillors from the United Democrats of Hong Kong in September [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 26 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 27 | The whole room has the feel of a place set out to be conventionally acceptable and — if such a word is appropriate in this Castle — almost friendly . |
| 28 | Given that a prime reason for investing in science is to boost the nation 's technological performance , where was the discussion about the implications of the government 's plans to privatise the British Technology Group , the descendant of a body set up by Labour itself in the mid-1960s to perform precisely this task ? |
| 29 | The Social Science Research Council ( SSRC ) is a body set up by Royal Charter for the promotion of social science research . |
| 30 | Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty . |