Example sentences of "[vb past] to set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While baptism marked one rite de passage , death and burial marked another , and again the Church tried to set out appropriate actions . |
| 2 | Detonator exploded but failed to set off main charge . |
| 3 | The remaining 18 have , in the eyes of the EPA , failed to regulate enough pollutants or failed to set sufficiently strict limits . |
| 4 | Rabuka warned that the army would step in , but at an economic summit meeting on June 29-30 , the government agreed to set up national wage guidelines . |
| 5 | In response , the probation service agreed to set up Intensive Probation Programmes , and in April 1989 national standards were announced for community service orders : |
| 6 | Employers who might previously have paid ex gratia pensions to favoured employees began to set up formal schemes arranged through insurance companies ( Rhodes , 1965 , p. 87 ) . |