Example sentences of "[adv] set [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparently set commercial format of ITV in the UK was rudely upset during 1991 by a novel — and pretty ill-thought-out — scheme dreamed up by the government to distribute new licences for ITV1 . |
| 2 | It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly . |
| 3 | It does not set individual drug prices , but rather limits companies ' overall profits to 25 per cent . |
| 4 | The drought has already set one project , a national food reserve , back by at least a year . |
| 5 | James Molyneaux and the Rev Ian Paisley have already set this deadline for the resumption of talks and even as their two parties vigorously fought each other in several constituencies , joint working groups were in session drawing up vital working papers for the forthcoming negotiations . |
| 6 | I do n't think he ever set great store by it . ’ |
| 7 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 8 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 9 | And she had always set great store by common sense . |
| 10 | Lineen still setting lively pace |
| 11 | A properly set uniform emission fee that charged a given sum for each unit ( say , 1 tonne ) of pollutant emitted , for example , could achieve a collectively established level of air quality at the least total control cost to society ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | Of the two broad social groups between which the tsar had to mediate , he clearly set greater store by the gentry than the peasantry . |
| 13 | The mighty IBM , which has probably set more industry standards than most other organisations put together , is not being drawn into the argument . |
| 14 | One of the great advantages of MEDAU which also sets this method of teaching movement apart from so many of today 's exercise programmes is its adaptability to meet almost every specialised need in the community . |
| 15 | She also set two rubbish bins alight to bring out the fire brigade . |
| 16 | By birth she was a lioness , born under the ruling sign of Leo and proud of it , even if she did n't really set much store by astrology . |
| 17 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; ( d ) assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessments by teachers . |
| 18 | assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessment by teachers . |
| 19 | ‘ So you do n't set much store by the ill feeling around , that evening ? ’ |
| 20 | Although we were n't set any price limits , I decided to be realistic , and set myself a budget . |
| 21 | If your holiday dates are pre-set then set great care should be taken to ensure you 're adequately equipped for the worst of possible conditions . |
| 22 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 23 | In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners . |
| 24 | Since the IF statement evaluates the testable condition and acts on the result , you can use a previously set variable name in place of the test . |
| 25 | I 'd never set much store by rational argument where Karen was concerned . |
| 26 | And though they too set social connection and sporting activities — hunting , combat , riding — above literacy , nevertheless it was possible to acquire learning at them ; the opportunities exploited by William V of Aquitaine , William the Conqueror , Robert the Frisian , and Fulk le Réchin — all regarded as educated men — must have also been available to some of those who were brought up with them . |
| 27 | On taking office in 1980 Reagan promised to eliminate the deficit by 1984 , but actually set new record deficits by increasing military spending while refusing to countenance tax increases . |
| 28 | This is why Patrick has never set much store by material things . |