Example sentences of "[noun] to set a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |
| 2 | Last year McCallen crashed out , leaving Robert to win , and Ian Newton to set a new lap record at 115.86 mph — but this time it should be a different story . |
| 3 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 4 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 5 | If one of them is aware that she is providing an example for the others , she will have an additional incentive to set a high standard . |
| 6 | Yet again he eked out his resources across the two laps to set a new best of 1min 48.4sec . |
| 7 | 1983 ) , and legislation on ‘ rate-capping ’ was enacted in England in 1984 , enabling central government to set a maximum rate level for particular councils — just as later ( in 1988/9 ) the community charge ( popularly known as the poll tax ) and the uniform business rate were introduced there before the experiment was extended to England and Wales . |
| 8 | On May 29 the government announced that the Political Parties Law had been amended to allow the INEC to set a new limit for individual contributions . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a speed limit in this city , sir , and as an officer of the law it 's my duty to set a good example . ’ |
| 10 | But it will deal a blow to the agreement , which allows publishers to set a minimum price for most books . |
| 11 | Motion three three four also deals with the abolition of the Wages Council and the C E C would like you to ask you to support it , but with qualification , that a national minimum wage rather than a national Wages Council is likely to be the best way to set a minimum rate of pay . |
| 12 | Both fell to peeler crab on a 1/0 hook to 15 lb line to give Roy a unique double — before Christmas he took a 4 lb 7 oz flounder from the Exe to set a new best for his club 's inner area record . |
| 13 | using IBM terminology , the SETL macro can be employed to indicate a starting point in the file and the ESETL macro to set a finishing point . |
| 14 | It is not feasible at this stage to set a precise timetable for each acquisition since much will depend on the availability of information and the complexity of each deal . |
| 15 | In an attempt to prevent this slow creep the department asked each local office to set a maximum upper weekly limit for fees in their area . |