Example sentences of "set [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track . |
| 2 | He came home from the July meeting at Newmarket in 1904 and set men on the following week . |
| 3 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 4 | In Spain , RENFE has been set targets under the various modernization plans and international credit agreements to eliminate its operating deficit , and subsequently cover its depreciation costs and interest charges . |
| 5 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 6 | This was a formal process which focused on staff development by setting goals for the coming year . |
| 7 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 8 | If one follows through the possible implications of this , one comes to the thought that perhaps language should be presented , to learners primarily in lexical terms , setting conditions for the gradual emergence of syntax as a focusing device — the very converse of conventional practice . |
| 9 | Raising standards ; by guaranteeing that all pupils get a balanced curriculum which prepares them for adult life ; and by setting objectives over the full range of abilities — via ‘ attainment targets ’ backed up with appropriate assessment arrangements . |