Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |
| 2 | It is actually a fairly simple matter , well within the capability of Neolithic and Bronze Age people , to set down a straight line across hilly country using three surveying poles . |
| 3 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 4 | Barnes has fired up a powerful B side and told them : ‘ We are going to set down a performance that will make the selectors take notice . |
| 5 | The second related issue is whether it is appropriate to set down a single structure which puts topics under specific headings , given the interdisciplinary nature of the subject . |
| 6 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 7 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 8 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 9 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 10 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 11 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 12 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 13 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 14 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 15 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 16 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 17 | Students of the British public sector have attempted to set down the ‘ typical ’ features of industrial relations in nationalized industries . |
| 18 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 19 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 20 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 21 | Believing that a man is about to set off a bomb wo n't make our soldier do anything , unless he also wants something : in this case , to prevent an explosion . |
| 22 | Isabelle must have left a legacy of frightening bitterness behind her in this place in order to set off a reaction like that . |
| 23 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 24 | I 'm going to set off a flare . ’ |
| 25 | Whatever , it was there , waiting , waiting , waiting — for one ingredient to complete it , to set off a reaction that might never stop . |
| 26 | TERRORISTS in Northern Ireland yesterday breached tight security to set off a bomb which injured two policemen , one seriously . |
| 27 | To set off the blues , I used white Shasta daisies , white bergenias and the silver foliage of pearly everlasting , Anaphalis cinnamomea . |
| 28 | In the summer , blues and pinks predominate but there are always plenty of white flowers , especially the white forms of cosmos and Campanula persicifolia , to set off the other colours . |
| 29 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 30 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |