Example sentences of "[verb] to set the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government wants to set the new system to work from January 1 . |
| 2 | The government wants to set the technical standards of Poland 's public network and to retain the power to set ceilings on consumer prices . |
| 3 | The woman has to set the enticing fruit , the desire to have knowledge like God himself , against God 's plain command . |
| 4 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 5 | Against this undoubted benefit one has to set the likely bad consequences of recognizing the general and unqualified validity of consent to political authority . |
| 6 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 7 | This will require considerable competence on behalf of the teacher who will need to set the general framework . |
| 8 | ‘ Did I remember to set the internal stabilizers ? |
| 9 | The firms with the best teams — analysts , jobbers , corporate lawyers , financial PR men , whatever — those were the firms who were going to set the going rate and get it . |
| 10 | The arrangement of the moots is usually the responsibility of the students ' law society , though a law teacher or practising lawyer can usually be persuaded to set the moot and preside on the ‘ bench . ’ |
| 11 | They say here that he will do no more of these questionless immobile heads as his designs begin to set the immobile against the mobile . |
| 12 | This study aims to set the current problem in its context by describing developments in the relationship between central and local government between 1945 and 1983 . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , she argues the case for continuing to set the micro-political perspective in the context of a macro-political explanation of social relations . |
| 14 | And I think it does show that the Greens are continuing to set the political agenda . |
| 15 | The Government — Mr John Patten — having learnt through the courts that teachers have the right to refuse to set the prescribed tests , now threatens to cut the headteacher 's salary and to take legal action against the governors of schools where the tests are not set . |
| 16 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 17 | However , if you are going to do this , then you need to set the same ACLs on all the relevant files . |
| 18 | Against this rather scanty evidence we have to set the 5 patients probably infected from an HIV-infected dentist . |