Example sentences of "set [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee recommends that the NHS Management Executive should ensure that all English Regional Health Authorities set broad standards for waiting times for such appointments , and that the Management Executive should require District Health Authorities and Family Health Services Authorities to take urgent action to reduce waiting times for first appointments . |
| 2 | The California State Employees ' Association claimed that the state deliberately set lower salaries for jobs held predominantly by women , such as nurses , teachers and clerical workers . |
| 3 | Basil did not preach on such matters ; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate . |
| 4 | Like our parents , we set high goals for ourselves . |
| 5 | You know set this trap for you . |
| 6 | However , the enthusiastic way in which the present Health Secretary , Virginia Bottomley , has implemented Opportunity 2000 in the NHS ( the government 's equal opportunity initiative for women ) and set clear targets for health authorities to achieve , should ensure that momentum is not entirely lost . |
| 7 | As the organising committee we set three objectives for this conference . |
| 8 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up better adjusted , with greater self-esteem , than those who are allowed to get away with behaving any way they like . |
| 9 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 10 | He was co-author of the declaration of Philadelphia of 1945 which set postwar goals for the ILO , and affirmed that economic and financial policies were to be judged by their contribution to social justice . |
| 11 | That ministers set one policy for dealing with Saddam Hussein … and operated another in secret . |
| 12 | One explanation is that Uganda 's two most prominent leaders in the recent past were Idi Amin and Milton Obote , both of whom set worldwide standards for venality and corruption . |
| 13 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 14 | Germans set Euro ambush for Major |
| 15 | But an explanation by Loganair to passengers waiting for a flight in Stornoway yesterday set new standards for bizarre apologies . |
| 16 | Just as individuals need to take stock at this stage , in order to lay the ghosts of the past , grapple with the present and set new goals for the future , so a couple may need to reappraise their marriage in those same areas . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , actions taken under such stress are often irreversible and set new bounds for strategy in future . |
| 18 | In our species rigidly set behavioural patterns for social or sexual behaviour do not exist . |
| 19 | Britain 's Wages Councils set minimum wages for about 2.5 million people . |
| 20 | These set minimum sizes for output . |
| 21 | On Sept. 10 Delamuraz ordered Swiss banks to dismantle four price-fixing arrangements , which ( i ) covered the underwriting of Swiss franc bond issues for foreign borrowers ; ( ii ) set brokerage fees charged on trading in securities on the stock exchanges ; ( iii ) controlled charges for custodian business ; and ( iv ) set minimum fees for documentary credits . |
| 22 | The computer studies staff provide the theory and background information to all students and set special exercises for students not catered for by their own department . |