Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 2 | Shop windows containing the Romanian dictator 's portrait were also smashed and vehicles overturned and set alight . |
| 3 | It called for changes in US regulatory practice to reflect this , and demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) take more account of health concerns when setting safe levels . |
| 4 | A dozen cars have been stolen and set ablaze in the past six weeks — the last incident nearly led to hundreds of acres of trees being destroyed . |
| 5 | When Wilfrid received his 87 hides of land at Selsey , part of the package was 250 male and female slaves , whom he converted and set free . |
| 6 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |