Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 2 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 3 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 4 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 5 | Some countries have lifted restrictions on nationality and now allow local nationals to set up in the zones . |
| 6 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 7 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 10 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 11 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 12 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 13 | To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria . |
| 14 | Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’ |
| 15 | These principles expand upon the basic standards set down in the rules of Conduct and indicate the standards which members should seek to achieve in the interests of good practice . |
| 16 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 17 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 18 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 19 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 20 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 21 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 22 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 23 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 24 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
| 25 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 26 | Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) chronicles the breakdown of a community of nuns set up in the Himalayas , riven by inner conflicts and pulled apart by the intrusion of romantic figures from outside . |
| 27 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 28 | Existing techniques are accurate enough to measure such changes in the Sun 's size directly , and monitoring programmes set up in the wake of these various claims and counter-claims will resolve the issue , one way or another , before the end of the decade . |
| 29 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 30 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |