Example sentences of "[pron] set [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I next ran at Oslo where I set a personal best for 200 metres , so that was encouraging . |
| 2 | ‘ While you were following your own pursuits this morning , I set a few more wheels in motion . |
| 3 | I set the lower limit to 50bpm and willed my resting pulse to go down till the bleeper sounded , by which time I was breathing deeply and totally relaxed . |
| 4 | Then go upstairs , while I set the necessary wheels in motion , and wait for me . " |
| 5 | The most memorable aspect of their doomed love was Henreid 's gallant — and erotic — way of lighting her cigarettes , which set a new fashion in flirtation . |
| 6 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 7 | Ms Tyson has supported the Japanese-American semiconductor agreements , the last of which set a proposed share of part of the Japanese chip market of 20% ; she says that not all sectors should be treated to the ‘ market-share ’ approach , but that the administration reserves the right to use it where appropriate . |
| 8 | But unlike most schools which set the 2nd MB at the end of the second year of the course , before the students start their clinical studies , Southampton has moved the exam to the end of the third ( first clinical ) year . |
| 9 | The British Museum Press will be publishing a new series on Eastern art beginning with Sheila Canby 's Persian Painting , Rachael Ward 's Islamic Metalwork and J.M. Rogers 's Mughal Miniatures which set the major stylistic and technical developments against the historical events which influenced them . |
| 10 | Banks financing oil and gas pipeline projects are given similar guarantees by means of through-put agreements which set the minimum usage of the facility by the various contracting parties . |
| 11 | But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive . |
| 12 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
| 13 | If you set the right standards and she knows that she ca n't fool you , you 'll be all right . |
| 14 | Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ . |
| 15 | When we built J7 HPC , we set the rear anti-roll bar to give mild oversteer — an attitude it adopts readily . |
| 16 | They set a marvellous example indeed . |
| 17 | Their arrest came only days after they set a new world record for cycling at altitude across the Himalayas . |
| 18 | Make sure managers and supervisors are familiar with the policy and procedures , and make sure too that they set a good example to the staff they supervise . |
| 19 | Apart from accuracy and price , what set the Polar apart was that , unlike the other portable meters , the runner did not have to be wired up with unsightly cables leading from the electrodes attached to the chest . |