Example sentences of "sets great " in BNC.
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| 1 | It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly . |
| 2 | However , he says , ‘ our own society — at least the academic sub-society within it [ a significant qualification in view of the current argument ] — sets great store by what it calls , and thinks to be , objectivity and has certain standards of dispassionate , scientific investigation , to which at least lip service is paid and which may , of course , be distorted by unrecognised prejudice of one kind or another ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | The Church of Scotland sets great store by metrical psalms , whilst the Free Church of Scotland sings its psalms unaccompanied by instruments . |
| 4 | Hill ( 1985 ) sets great store on identifying relevant order-winning criteria from a set including price , product quality , product reliability , and other factors . |
| 5 | Moreover , the industrial relations climate in most Western economies sets great store by the preservation of a particular pattern of wage differentials between different categories of labour . |