Example sentences of "[art] [noun] set [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the manufacturer charges a unit price somewhat above zero , the retailer sets a higher price for any given price of retailer 2 , leading to the reaction function and equilibrium at B. The same argument can be made for manufacturer 2 .
2 The Board sets the final examination from a detailed syllabus available from the NEBE .
3 Space Biospheres Ventures , the private firm that built and runs Biosphere 2 , said the bionauts set a new world record for living in a closed system .
4 Under the scheme , known as the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market ( Reclaim ) , the AQMD sets an annual target for reducing emissions of hydrocarbons , nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide .
5 Experience of cooperation during the war set the final seal .
6 They rose 10 per cent on 2 August , and also moved up when the UN imposed sanctions , when Iraq refused the UN 's call for withdrawal and when the UN set the 15 january deadline .
7 If that happened , the CAA would have the authority to set the maximum level of airport charges for each . ’
8 The government sets the local price of petrol absurdly low while imposing taxes of over 80% on the company 's revenues .
9 Even as an interim solution , the problems of rewarded gifting are formidable : does the State set a standard price for a donated kidney , tailor the price to compatibility , or the means of the recipient ?
10 The American set a new record aggregate of 285 and Boomer shared second place , six strokes behind .
11 After all , fanatic ayatollahs and born-again Christians eager for the Rapture set no encouraging example .
12 The novel sets the individual reader 's response above authorial determination of meaning , orthodox critical interpretations , and other ‘ closed ’ forms of response .
13 None of the items he checked affected the probe — though he gave the chess set a suspicious glance — until he moved to the wall hangings .
14 The farm sets a good example in other ways too … branches pruned from the trees are shredded so the goodness goes back into the soil .
15 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 .
16 In a word the principal people in the land set a particular value on this man .
17 For the first time since he became leader , he is in the position to set the political agenda .
18 The Convention set a transitional period of 10 years , with an industrial free trade area coming into being by 1970 .
19 Mother poured hair dye round the hoof ; even that did not act sufficiently as a lubricant to set the poor beast free .
20 Installed in the power supply to the immersion heater , a push-button sets an electronic timer long enough to heat the average household hot water cylinder .
21 Support on the first night is provided by Dutch quartet Bettie Serveert , while Kristin Hersh plays an acoustic set the following evening .
22 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 .
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