Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | insists on a proper response to complaints and on action to set right the problems behind them . |
| 2 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 3 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
| 4 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 5 | Wings rather short and narrow , legs set well back , giving upright stance at rest . |
| 6 | Rising to his feet , Vitor stood in front of the fireplace with his legs set apart and his arms folded . |
| 7 | The full data set also includes DHSS information on unemployment benefits ( including Supplementary Benefits ) paid to sample members . |
| 8 | But the sign is a premature announcement , for a third building boasts fresh white paint , two standing privvies set behind , and a row of children 's swings . |
| 9 | Her lips set mutinously , she trudged up to the bathroom . |
| 10 | Appearance faults , according to the Breed Standard , include the following : Light , tall , greyhound-like in general appearance ; too long , too short , narrow body ; prominent occipital bone ; hound-like head and expression ; narrow , light , too short , too long , or coarse head ; flat forehead ( little or no stop ) ; narrow lower jaw ; long or pointed muzzle ; cheeks too protruding ; ram 's or split nose , bridge or nose dished or sloping ; tip of nose light or spotted ; open , pink or spotted lips , corners of the mouth open ; distemper teeth ; wrinkles on the head ; ears set too low , large , long , floppy , turned back , not lying close , or irregularly carried ; light ( yellow ) eyes , or a light and a dark eye , open , deep-set , too full , round , staring eyes , piercing gaze ; neck too long , thick , weak muscled , dewlaps or loose skin on throat ; forelegs set narrow or not straight ; light nails ; tail set too high or too low ; coat soft , too short or too long , wavy coat , absence of undercoat ; markings of the wrong colour , poorly defined or too extensive ; white spots ; dewclaws on the hind legs . |
| 11 | His profile was strong and patrician , his nose straight , the bronzed skin clear and healthy , the neat scroll-work of his ears set close to his well-shaped head . |
| 12 | Catherine laid it down that every post should be paid , but the limited funds set aside by the government were rapidly eroded by inflation . |
| 13 | The funds set aside in this way will be used exclusively for departmental and central university libraries . |
| 14 | One possible definition of I 1 is the initial margin payment , which might be about 4% of the price of the future ( Bear , 1972 ; Brooks and Hand , 1988 ; Francis , 1991 ; Gressis , Vlahos and Philippatos , 1984 ; Levy , 1987 ; Niederhoffer and Zeckhauser , 1980 ; Panton and Joy , 1978 ; Robichek , Cohn and Pringle , 1972 ; Schrock , 1971 ; Turner , Houston and Shepherd , 1992 ; Yau , Savanayana and Schneeweis , 1990 ) , while Lukac , Brorsen and Irwin ( 1988a ; 1988b ) and Marshall and Herbst ( 1992 ) defined the investment as the initial margin plus the funds set aside to cover subsequent margin payments . |
| 15 | And he warned that any compensation paid to satisfy the Ombudman 's requirements , would squeeze funds set aside to help people with disabilities . |
| 16 | The elder Despenser , however , was re-appointed in June 1312 as Justice of the southern forests , and took part in the efforts by the king and his advisers to have the Ordinances set aside as invalid and illegal . |
| 17 | Under Edward II judges increasingly followed the precedents set earlier , notably with regard to the definition of vicarages as temporal . |
| 18 | Blue eyes set rather too close for handsomeness , and a loose full mouth that was half smiling , one corner higher than the other . |
| 19 | The long straight nose , thin lips and diffident , questioning expression of the eyes set rather close together would have looked as well on a girl . |
| 20 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 21 | And no touch of tease or laughter in the long grey eyes , eyes set so far apart that they belonged more to the temples than to the full face . |
| 22 | She waved back gaily ; his shoulders set haughtily and he turned away . |
| 23 | Obtaining reliable information about those who own and run small enterprises , however , is difficult because there are no satisfactory national data sets directly concerned with this economic grouping . |
| 24 | Furthermore , there has been little systematic application of these tests to cross-section models or data sets commonly used in economics and no controlled experiments or finite sample analyses to assess their performance on such data . |
| 25 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 26 | Their rejection of the Old Testament set aside the argument from fulfilled prophecy which had played a notable part in his conversion . |
| 27 | Article 38 is the only specified exception , for it preserves the position that a rule set forth in a treaty can become binding upon a third party as a rule of customary international law . |
| 28 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 29 | Her little fists clenched in defiance , and her mouth set stubbornly . |
| 30 | Leonora 's mouth set stubbornly . |