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 ‘ It 's getting very messy and very political , ’ said Keegan , who has set a deadline for the Belgian club .
5 The Stewarts suffered a sequence of disasters which would almost suggest that some evil magician had set a curse upon the entire house .
6 Both points are presumably right but each sets a problem for the natural idea that explanation is the discovery of hidden order .
7 Chronic exposure to aluminium has been linked to nerve damage , and an EC Directive sets a limit for the permissable amount in drinking water .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Evening light was slanting through the doorway , setting a sheen in the ancient spear-head .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
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