Example sentences of "who set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 No Charlton player could match the first touch control of Newcastle midfielder Lee Clark who set up two of his side 's goals .
2 The clampdown has exposed the close links between landowners , the security forces and the cocaine cartels , who set up paramilitary squads to ‘ clean out ’ left-wing activists from rural areas such as the Magdalena Medio .
3 The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats .
4 In this the miners are at one with the demonstrators who set up another first in Moscow yesterday — the first rival march to the parade in Red Square which officially salutes the revolution .
5 Botham , who set out last Friday on the 22-day hike from Land 's End to Margate , is already suffering for his efforts — a deep-seated blister is causing untold pain .
6 Fifty-five years of unadventurous apprenticeship had led to fourteen years of leadership , buffeting but successful , crowned by a spectacular retirement , followed , ironically , for a man who set so much store by repose , by a sad decade of dismal leisure .
7 If they are strongly and exclusively attached to domineering parents who set impossibly high standards and are deeply ‘ hurt ’ when their offspring fail to live up to them , it is probable that they will acquire a sense of conscience so severe and restrictive that their spontaneity and emotional life will be crippled and much of their creative energy will remain unused .
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