Example sentences of "to set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 2 | And do n't you think , he 'd like to score a happy marriage to set against the other one ? ’ |
| 3 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 4 | Against Ireland the English backs showed wit , poise , passing skills and pace enough to set against the best . |
| 5 | Critics tried to rescue older notions of ‘ community ’ or ‘ citizenship ’ to set against the competitive values of the Thatcher government — only to discover that the latter was highly adept in taking over these themes itself in such areas as housing , education , and ‘ neighbourhood watch ’ crime-prevention schemes , partly as a weapon against left-wing local authorities . |
| 6 | The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS . |
| 7 | Before the main feature , however , there were a couple of important sideshows to set before the drenched assembly in the shape of the Plate and Bowl finals . |
| 8 | I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction . |
| 9 | Make repairs using glue in a period when no one will be using the stairs , to give the glue time to set without the joint flexing . |