Example sentences of "[pron] sets [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Low Pay Unit , which sets minimum rates of pay for 2.5 milion workers , announced that Mrs Shephard had condemned the poorest families to even lower wages . |
| 2 | And most countries with nuclear power programmes are , are pa er er are , subscribe to the International Atomic Energy Agency which sets international standards er and they have inspectors who , who er check these standards are being observed . |
| 3 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 4 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 5 | It was said that , as noted above , the law would provide not a straitjacket but , rather , scope for the ‘ imaginative application of professional skills at all levels of the education service , within a statutory framework which sets clear objectives ’ . |
| 6 | A similar double-narrative tactic is employed in Brigid Brophy 's In Transit ( 1969 ) , and something comparable is undertaken by Peter Ackroyd in Hawksmoor ( 1985 ) , which sets alternate chapters in contemporary and in early eighteenth-century London . |
| 7 | Now there 's a sight you do n't see every day , Restaurateur and Chef Extraordinaire Raymond Blanc , the man who sets culinary trends at up to £70 a head , queueing up for a school dinner in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | The doctor who sets free trapped genius |
| 9 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 10 | Second , it sets arbitrary amounts on the income needs of people of different ages and may underestimate the needs of children by comparison with adults ( Berthoud 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Researchers have also measured the response of the superconducting properties of a potassium-doped buckyball compound to changes in pressure — one of the fundamental measurements of any new superconductor , as it sets immediate constraints on the theoretical interpretations of the material 's behaviour . |
| 12 | It has few exemptions , though it sets annual ceilings on how much individual patients pay . |
| 13 | And this resourceful fruit has more to offer : it stops fruit and vegetables , such as apples , avocados and artichokes , from discolouring ; it sets reluctant jams and jellies made with low- pectin fruits . |
| 14 | It sets free nuclear explosives that used to be tucked away in superpower arsenals , and must now be disposed of |