Example sentences of "set back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
| 2 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 3 | And it 's set back like that on the crossroads . |
| 4 | Although women were proportionately less successful than men in being elected ( 24% of them came first as against 35% of men ) , 1990 resumed the upward trend in female participation in local elections which had been so strangely set back in 1988 . |
| 5 | Attempts to bolster the numbers of the endangered rufous hare wallaby in the Australian outback have been set back by domestic cats , which have killed 11 of the rare animals introduced to remote areas after a captive breeding programme . |