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

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1 The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act , which set up secular courts and procedures , established no new principle not involved in the old form of divorces by petitions in Acts of Parliament .
2 The plant was built by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD , which set up Eurochemic in 1957 .
3 A motion was proposed and passed at that meeting , which set out general suggestions concerning a possible way forward .
4 Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities .
5 The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of .
6 These ideas are the ‘ triggers ’ which set off new lines of thought .
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