Example sentences of "sets [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the rod is a transducer which sets up a controlled vibration within the sapphire . |
| 2 | Kooyonga 's three-quarter length defeat of Zaahi sets up a possible clash with top three-year-olds St Jovite , Dr Devious , All At Sea and Muhtarram , as well as Saturday 's Nassau Stakes winner Ruby Tiger . |
| 3 | Wordsworth sets up a close relationship between the possessive pronouns " our " and " my " . |
| 4 | As you each stimulate the other , rhythmically , sympathetically , it sets up a resonating circuit of activity in the pelvic nervous complexes . |
| 5 | This departure from the rigid procedures of experimental psychology sets up a radical challenge to the conventional discipline . |
| 6 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 7 | The judge , therefore , sets up a legal scale for weighing the relative importance of solely medical criteria , without giving any justification for his choice , without advancing sound non-medical criteria , and despite the fact that expert opinion would have him avoid such an inflexible position . |
| 8 | Derivation of the masculine from the feminine ‘ by subtraction ’ sets up a logical opposition between positive , present feminine and negative , absent masculine . |
| 9 | ‘ Management ’ ( which is relatively cheap ) is seen as the key to change : so education support grants are made available for management training , management consultants proliferate , and the Secretary of State sets up a high-powered task force to investigate the management training and development needs of heads and senior staff . |
| 10 | If the cylinder spins in a fluid medium at rest , under ideal conditions , it sets up a circulatory profile ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 11 | Similarly , where Community law sets up a comprehensive system of health controls on export , as in trade in fresh poultrymeat , the importing Member State may no longer impose systematic checks on importation under its own law . |
| 12 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 13 | God himself sets up a new Jerusalem , and a Messiah-like figure appears at the end , " the lamb which became a great animal and had great black horns on its head " . |
| 14 | Whenever the search selects a rule whose action is hierarchical , it sets up a new search problem , and solves it by calling search recursively . |
| 15 | When an experimenter sets up a new group of hens they first fight among themselves . |
| 16 | Clothing sets up a hierarchical order founded on a father 's liking for a child . |
| 17 | The passage sets up a straightforward opposition between what de Man calls " two apparently incompatible chains of connotation " : De Man 's claim that these poles enter into a system of exchanges and substitutions becomes an argument that this opposition " also contains statements claiming the priority of metaphor in a binary system that opposes metaphor to metonymy " ( 1979 : 62 ) . |
| 18 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
| 19 | His first novel , Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) , sets up a ludicrous adventure plot in which two ‘ heroes ’ attempt to carry the mummified remains of Jesus ( seized from t base for a whole series of chronological divergences and a parallel plot in which a zoo and hot-dog joint , together , are established as the roadside attraction to the title . |
| 20 | The Treasury is not a reactionary monolith , but the combination and interpenetration of the upper echelons of private financial capitalist enterprises and the Treasury sets up a formidable obstacle to radical change in the management of financial flows . |
| 21 | SNAPPY FAMILIES : Mellor sets up a jolly photo-call with his in-laws after they claimed he banned visits from the grandchildren |
| 22 | Modulation sets up a structural series that echoes the mutative processes of nature . |
| 23 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |
| 24 | It sets up a continuing argument about the proper character of scientific method , which ‘ Realism ’ has not resolved . |
| 25 | The arrangement sets up a circular movement that keeps the eye moving around the picture and reinforces the tension of the gaze , between the sitter and the picture on the easel . |
| 26 | 1968 : MCA sets up a British operation . |
| 27 | The hypnotic induction sets up a peculiar state of ‘ dissociated consciousness ’ |
| 28 | What sets up the causal link in this case is the fact that honey has a distinctive taste , which Pooh will recognise . |
| 29 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 30 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |