Example sentences of "[verb] set the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Senegal , one of the 30 poorest nations in the world has set the best example of all . |
| 2 | Co-ordinator Andrew Smart has set the following schedule to the end of April : |
| 3 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 4 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 5 | The Society in consultation with the Regional Representatives has set the national priorities as being : — |
| 6 | ‘ And a pretty penny that must have set the good Canon back . |
| 7 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 8 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , held a key role during Britain 's presidency of the EC and could have set the whole tone of the West 's approach to the problem . |
| 9 | We were able to boast of having set the lowest rates in west London and of providing sufficiently good services to attract the Leader of the Opposition to Conservative-controlled Ealing from Liberal-controlled Richmond . |
| 10 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 11 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 12 | The Macleod Report of 1965 had set the Young Conservatives a target of a quarter of a million members , and it had declared the importance of political involvement . |
| 13 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 14 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 15 | There was no proof that an initial spark from Christian extremists had set the whole affair in motion ; there was suspicion , and it is one aspect of the Orkney affair that attracted the attention of the feature writers . |
| 16 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 17 | Delight have set the following survey . |