Example sentences of "set a [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To set a time-cycle for the automatic printing of retained mail messages . |
| 2 | If you wanted somebody to set a bomb on the Swazi rail line , then Dirk would do the job . |
| 3 | Bicker said in a warning voice , and he reached across Riven to set a hand on the big man 's arm . |
| 4 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's getting very messy and very political , ’ said Keegan , who has set a deadline for the Belgian club . |
| 6 | The Stewarts suffered a sequence of disasters which would almost suggest that some evil magician had set a curse upon the entire house . |
| 7 | Both points are presumably right but each sets a problem for the natural idea that explanation is the discovery of hidden order . |
| 8 | Chronic exposure to aluminium has been linked to nerve damage , and an EC Directive sets a limit for the permissable amount in drinking water . |
| 9 | If this can be kept in a place that is accessible to teachers , along with a monitor ( a small black and white one would do ) , then it can be used for teacher viewing and for setting a tape at the right place before a lesson . |
| 10 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 11 | Evening light was slanting through the doorway , setting a sheen in the ancient spear-head . |
| 12 | To overcome this problem , after long-netting the main wood two of us would walk behind the rabbits and set a net along the small wood . |
| 13 | Earlier this month , the Department of Environment set a date for the public inquiry to commence on October 26 at a venue to be fixed in Liverpool . |
| 14 | Earlier this month , the Environment Department set a date for the public inquiry to start on October 26 at a venue to be fixed in Liverpool . |
| 15 | The Government now intends to draw up its own inventory of local needs and set a contribution to the local authority that will allow for the provision of those minimum needs in year one . |
| 16 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |