Example sentences of "sets [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no which telly she 's watching cos there 's three sets on , all with different programmes . |
| 2 | The hero with the cholesterol problem sets on yet another eggs-traordinary adventure . |
| 3 | Although IBM , Apple and Motorola have a forged an agreement for the duration of their project , there remain obvious legal implications for a vendor who might want to stick say Sun Sparc and MIPS RISC instruction sets on to a single piece of silicon . |
| 4 | One distinctive element in this particular solution was the decision to finance the service out of a licence fee payable by all those in possession of radio sets rather than some form of advertising revenue . |
| 5 | ( In fact , sets right at the top of this range were only rarely included in the testing programme . ) |
| 6 | Even before autumn sets in , gardeners start thinking about spring and putting in bulbs for next year |
| 7 | The emphasis on athleticism , power play , sustained long-ball assaults , blitzkrieg , has bred a proliferation of muscular but blunderingly naive defenders who appear to be alarmingly , untidily vulnerable when required to cope with more subtle forms of attack ; show them dribblers , runners with the ball or an incisive exchange of sharp passes , and panic sets in . |
| 8 | Head for tidal boatyard dykes and basins when thaw sets in , as excellent sport expected . |
| 9 | Should revive quicker than most waters once thaw sets in . |
| 10 | When times are bad and reactionary commodification sets in , the deleterious upshot is ‘ the recuperation of the avant-garde for art ’ ( p. 157 ) . |
| 11 | At the moment when conscientiousness sets in , when a conscience is acquired , when you start casting conspicuous glances over your shoulder , this is the moment at which POP becomes ROCK . |
| 12 | Be on the look-out when Pelagianism sets in : ‘ Thou shalt be justified by good works ’ , by doing the vicar 's mall , by the way you read the lessons , by the work you do towards the Christmas bazaar ! |
| 13 | Winter and spring-flowering hellebores can be lifted and divided now , so they settle down before winter sets in . |
| 14 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 15 | The phenomenon of the hollow frontier has been common where settlers cultivate land , which is virtually free to anyone with the capital and/or labour to exploit it , and move on when serious erosion sets in , leaving behind eroded soils . |
| 16 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 17 | If the glands in the urethra are involved , and chronic infection sets in , there may be fibrous tissue deposited at the sites of the chronic infection , and stricture formation may occur . |
| 18 | Naaah , but watch out for a Saddam Hussein model , which Jeremy is rushing out to cash in before conscription sets in . |
| 19 | Finally it is put down as boredom sets in and some other activity is engaged in . |
| 20 | As winter sets in , go to your local riding school which will often have its own indoor school ( the only civilised way to ride when the weather is really foul ) or try to build up some local contacts where you can offer your services . |
| 21 | However in practice deterioration of stock inevitably sets in , through a variety of factors : original errors or omissions in selection ( for the reasons suggested above ) ; poor control of withdrawals and replacements ; fluctuations in funding over a period of years ; fluctuations in demand caused by changes in the constituency , or changes in their needs . |
| 22 | Every organism continues to grow till it has reached its peak and then as its growth stops , deterioration sets in . |
| 23 | In a very acute illness the remedy may need to be repeated every hour or two at first until sustained improvement sets in . |
| 24 | Decay sets in if soft tissues remain , and the bones may be dispersed by wind , water or trampling ; or the carcases may be scavenged by predators , with results indistinguishable from the primary effects of predation . |
| 25 | If a person continually inhales odorous air , fatigue sets in , due to the adaptation of the nervous responses to the stimuli . |
| 26 | Because when the night sets in , strange things happen out in the wilds . |
| 27 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 28 | Presumably there is some positive response to sugar before the bloating sets in , but what might this be ? |
| 29 | In such a state understandable anxiety sets in and the situation deteriorates . |
| 30 | After this , depression sets in and deep seated anger can take root . |