Example sentences of "set [adj] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet while monopoly capital and government subsidy played a large part in this rise , it is important to set this development against the total picture of German industrial effort . |
| 2 | Joe handed the foaming mugs over the bar , and they both collapsed into the little wooden dining chairs set each side of the dying open fire . |
| 3 | It is set on a platform reached by seventy-four basalt steps , and its tall twin white towers , set each side of the main doorway , make it a landmark from Funchal way below . |
| 4 | ‘ So you do n't set much store by the ill feeling around , that evening ? ’ |
| 5 | From the brown hide couch in the sitting room , and the two matching armchairs set either side of the old range , the pretty cottage paintings and floral drapes throughout the house , the many ornaments that decorated every room , Beth was able to glimpse the nature of the woman who had lived and died here — David 's mother . |
| 6 | Bourbon producers set great store by the soft local water which passes through limestone on its way to the distilleries . |
| 7 | Scotland 's management have already verified my belief that the playing standards here set new highs in the abbreviated game . |
| 8 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 9 | A US government report has shown that lead levels in almost one-fifth of the nation 's largest municipal water systems , including some serving Washington and suburban counties , exceed the safety standards set last year by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 10 | Researchers have also measured the response of the superconducting properties of a potassium-doped buckyball compound to changes in pressure — one of the fundamental measurements of any new superconductor , as it sets immediate constraints on the theoretical interpretations of the material 's behaviour . |
| 11 | Government sets financial targets for the nationalized industries . |
| 12 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
| 13 | NATO and the Warsaw Pact had on Oct. 17 reached agreement on the definition of artillery in a forthcoming treaty , setting 100 mm as the minimum diameter of artillery pieces to be included . |
| 14 | Physicians , like scientists , set great store by the definitive experiment — the crucial investigation that will show the direction for the future . |
| 15 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |
| 16 | But Garvey had his back to Izzie and it seemed she might escape unseen , as she set one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder to Heaven . |