Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] set [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning next year , government and industry will set up five-year awards worth $100 000 a year . |
| 2 | There are fears that the acquittal of William Lozano will set off renewed riots in a city fraught with racial tension between Hispanic and black communities . |
| 3 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 4 | Many people ( especially bankers ! ) claim that default by a major debtor government like Mexico or Brazil could set off financial shock-waves that would make the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987 look like a hiccup . |
| 5 | A permanent WEU group would set up military units answerable to the WEU , plan possible deployments , and set up a European armaments agency . |
| 6 | The state would continue to own land , but peasants could work their plots as their own businesses , employ labour , and pass on farms to their heirs , and members of co-operatives could set up private businesses . |
| 7 | The EC should set down minimum standards of health and safety and employee rights , leaving national governments and enterprises to decide how to meet them , subject ultimately to the judgement of the courts . |
| 8 | Menstrual cycles can set off specific urges . |