Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] set the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brindley died in Staffordshire in 1772 , and although he did not live to see the realization of his dream , his was the unlettered genius that set the great age of canal-building in motion . |
| 2 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 3 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 4 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 5 | Restring the guitar and set the desired action height , checking the intonation and string alignment ; a certain amount of alignment correction is allowed by moving the neck laterally ( slacken the four neck bolts slightly , move neck , retighten bolts ) . |
| 6 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 7 | He finished off his drink and set the empty glass down on the table with exaggerated care . |
| 8 | Robert averaged 104.87 for the four laps and set the fastest lap of the race at 105.86mph . |
| 9 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 10 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 11 | They had a pyrotechnic display in the back lounge and set the whole inside of the coach alight . |
| 12 | Unperturbed , Albert Booth ( Labour 's transport spokesman ) raised steam and set the parliamentary engine moving in the great Westminster marshalling yard . |
| 13 | Significantly , for Lukacs , it is precisely the material situation of the writer in relation to socialism that sets the socialist realist apart from the bourgeois critical realist . |
| 14 | But presumably there were one or two great exponents around at that time that set the whole thing off ? |