Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One chilling line read , ‘ The Rushdie affair can not help but set back hopes for an early release for the western hostages in Lebanon . ’ |
| 2 | They looked to be all one way traffic as Abingdon 's mid-field dominated the game , setting up chances for the front runners , but the final touch was always missing . |
| 3 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 4 | As earnest of its intentions , the new Soviet government established a People 's Commissariat of Nationalities ( Narkomnats ) under Stalin 's direction , and this set up commissions for the main nationalities . |
| 5 | In a seminal article , Pocock ( 1973 ) set out parameters for a personal anthropology . |