Example sentences of "[verb] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE European Commission yesterday promised to set minimum prices for some fish in an attempt to placate French trawlermen who went on the rampage at Paris 's wholesale food market in a second day of anger at low prices and British imports . |
| 2 | I propose to set total standard spending for nineteen ninety four , ninety five at two thousand seven hundred and four point eight million pounds . |
| 3 | With the VSX4 test suite already announced and starting to ship , X/Open Co is preparing to go public on XPG4 itself , and has set early October as the time when it will spill the beans . |
| 4 | In order to do this successfully we have to avoid two snares that our Enemy has set modern Christians . |
| 5 | John Pople has set new standards for quantum mechanics , theoretical chemists , and for the general chemistry community . |
| 6 | Last week 's government circular on the reforms was the third in the past year , and each one has set new priorities for staff . |
| 7 | Courtaulds Engineering has maintained its accident-free record since and has set new health and safety targets in the drive to match best international standards . |
| 8 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide has set ambitious business targets and knows that every employee can make a major contribution . |
| 9 | In general Mrs Bottomley has set clear boundaries and timetables for the decisions and told the relevant authorities to work out their own salvation within them . |
| 10 | The government has set stringent targets ; incineration , even to produce electricity , does not count towards them . |
| 11 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 12 | THERE have been few moments , if any , in the century-long history of Sheffield football rivalry when a goal by a Wednesday player has set United followers dancing with delight . |
| 13 | The committee charged with looking into the habits of the EBRD , which last year spent more on itself than on helping ex-communist countries , has set strict standards for the inquiry . |
| 14 | The 13-member cartel again failed to set firm quotas for individual members [ see pp. 37641 ; 37930 ; 38122 ] but agreed to raise the collective output ceiling from 22,300,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 23,650,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of 1991 . |
| 15 | Agreement had been delayed by a reluctance on the part of major oil-producing states , led by Saudi Arabia , the Soviet Union and the United States to agree to set firm targets for limiting greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 16 | On March 18 , 1991 , EC Environment Ministers agreed to set new , stricter , anti-pollution standards for emissions from diesel-driven lorries and buses , aiming to halve emissions of carbon monoxide , nitrogen oxides , gaseous hydrocarbons and particulates . |
| 17 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 18 | ‘ At Boston , for example ( an A to B course rather than an out-and-back course ) in a year when there is a strong following wind , they 're going to set phenomenal times . |
| 19 | Kreepy Krauly USA Inc is alleged to set retail prices for its swimming-pool cleaning devices . |
| 20 | the requirement for a riskless asset which may be used to set equal lending and borrowing rates . |
| 21 | ATEST case aiming to set new standards of compensation for journalists suffering from repetitive strain injury may be launched against the Financial Times . |
| 22 | Early in 1990 the European Commission began setting minimum prices for Japanese memory chips sold in Europe . |
| 23 | It all started to set alight around the 10th and 11th . |
| 24 | With feedback and achievement targets there is a trade-off between the nearness of the target and the irritation of continually having to set new targets … |
| 25 | If he remembers to set realistic targets and play within himself , he can perform with credit . |
| 26 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 27 | In Ramsay Street the transformation would have set title-tattling tongues working overtime for months . |
| 28 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 29 | They will also be asked to set future targets for health and fitness . |
| 30 | COUNCILS will be asked to set annual housing targets and explain any failure to meet them to their tenants under government proposals announced yesterday . |