Example sentences of "have set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither does anyone else , but of course Graham 's furious now that he 's started winning , because for the first time for years he could have set up some good contracts — and not least collected some commission on the bonuses paid by Hi-Flight . ’ |
| 2 | It would be surprising if less prosperous sections of the community had not been equally attacked by disease at this time , and casualties of that extent would certainly have set back any recovery of the population . |
| 3 | some authorities will have set aside some growth money to prepare for autumn shortages . |
| 4 | Two thugs having a square-go in Glasgow could not have set about one another with any less ferocity than the Scottish Secretary and the Scottish National Party leader did on Tuesday . |
| 5 | He could hardly have set about this more cack-handedly , he thought : he was asking a respectable psychic to supply him with blackmail material . |