Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 2 | One evening in May 1979 they eagerly clambered in after warming up with several glasses of favourite tipple , turned the thermostat up high and set to . |
| 3 | He was a devoted and loyal colleague who was too old and set in his ways when he became Professor to introduce major developments , but signs of change were seen , coming to fruition in his successor 's reign . |
| 4 | The house was rosy and set into the hill . |
| 5 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 6 | Caroline was delighted and set to work transforming her straight , shoulder-length hair into a glamorous new look . |
| 7 | With goals that are complex , conflicting , vague and set at least partially by external agencies , the planning process is much more of a political act than in private corporations ( e.g. Grieve Smith 1981 ; Smith Ring and Perry 1985 ) . |
| 8 | This ambivalence towards public morality was crucial when set alongside the Unionists " extra-legal activities over Ireland . |
| 9 | He was very quick to observe anything abnormal and set to work to get some explanation … |
| 10 | But maybe this sounds glib when set against the specific and extreme misery of imprisonment . |
| 11 | The argument of achieving ‘ self-fulfilment ’ and of ‘ living as normal a life as possible ’ is seriously flawed when set against the context of an environment that is essentially oppressive and unadaptive and in which professional power establishes and perpetuates patterns of dependency . |
| 12 | Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home . |
| 13 | They creaked awake and set to rousing the fire and cooking breakfast , the Hearthwares cursing the chill weight of their armour , hopping up and down to get the blood moving through their limbs . |
| 14 | But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet . |
| 15 | The government allocated £6.5 million to ease the transition but this was totally inadequate when set against the costs associated with reorganisation . |
| 16 | Yet Nature , on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we can not understand , is n't very good when set to automatic . |
| 17 | That picture ‘ turned life a little under his very eye … all , through Frances ‘ s eyes , could be made static and beautiful and set in a pattern ’ . |
| 18 | His hands gripped the arms of his chair , levering himself upwards , his face grim and set with determination . |
| 19 | I was aware that the threshold of the audience 's suspension of disbelief lay far below mine ; and that the aching gap between the supposed humour of the script and their exaggerated response was minuscule when set beside that which already separated my reality from theirs . |
| 20 | But this increase was minuscule when set against the potential gain from an improvement in industrial productivity which would make up only half the gap between Britain and its competitors . |
| 21 | Few thoughtful people do not now fear nuclear catastrophe within a period which is infinitesimal when set against the history of mankind . |
| 22 | The laws are fairly insignificant when set beside the economic problem , and the near certainty that , even if all its present plans work out , the Government will be compelled to report a worse economic record in its third Parliament than its second . |
| 23 | Jenks argued in the 1950's that these latter policies became less relevant when set against the need to promote the systematic development of international law through the conclusion of multipartite law-making treaties . |
| 24 | Some , however , have found the so-called ‘ Beaux-Arts ’ style , for all its academic rigour and perfection of proportion to be too correct , bloodless , and buttoned-up when set against the free-flowing eclecticism of some other contemporary stations . |
| 25 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 26 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 27 | Suzanne , who left school in July , is clinging to life in the burns unit at Withington Hospital after being stripped , beaten and set on fire by captors who also shaved her head . |
| 28 | Murdock had found these ideas rather attractive and set to work to build a locomotive model . |
| 29 | Robert Cecil 's total benefits from office in terms of influence and contacts probably brought him more than Sadler 's £2,600 ; but , once again , the increase was not huge when set beside the rise in prices . |