Example sentences of "set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 2 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 3 | Founder member of the National Aeronautical Collection , the Cody Biplane set against the excellent World War One era supporting display . |
| 4 | So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out . |
| 5 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 6 | That is over a metre beyond his previous best , also set in the Victorian capital . |
| 7 | When deflation set in the previous gains were wiped out and more . |
| 8 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 10 | When he presented a new Kwik-Cricket set to the Barbadian Secretary of State for Education , the minister promptly moved desks , bookshelves and even delayed leaving for a cabinet meeting so that he could play the game in his office . |