Example sentences of "set [adj] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourbon producers set great store by the soft local water which passes through limestone on its way to the distilleries . |
| 2 | Scotland 's management have already verified my belief that the playing standards here set new highs in the abbreviated game . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Government sets financial targets for the nationalized industries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Physicians , like scientists , set great store by the definitive experiment — the crucial investigation that will show the direction for the future . |
| 7 | 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 . |