Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stack-oriented computers may set a condition code in the top element of the stack as a result of a test or comparison instruction ; a jump instruction is then provided to jump conditional on the state of this top element ( removing the element after testing ) . |
| 2 | In all these cases , it is vitally important that parents should set an example . |
| 3 | Against the obvious cost savings , companies must set the expense of re-implementing their system in a new environment . |
| 4 | Undaunted , Dick began to research paint and his finds will set a new course for warbirds with the latest in flat paint technique . |
| 5 | Concern about a baby 's bowel movements can set the scene for concern and anxiety . |
| 6 | Masses of willow warblers , chiff-chaffs , blackcaps , whitethroats and sometimes yellow-browed or Pallas 's warblers will set the pulses racing , and the flocks of chaffinch and brambling will be painstakingly examined in the hope of finding perhaps a little bunting , rustic bunting or Arctic redpoll . |
| 7 | The figures used to set the ‘ obsolescence rate ’ are arbitrary and take little account of subject differences . |
| 8 | Here a different Home Secretary , Herbert Morrison of the Labour party , argued that legislation protecting a particular group of persons would set a most dangerous precedent , and that although Ratcliffe 's pamphlet was deplorable , he could not prevent its publication . |
| 9 | The theory behind such schemes is that ambitious large farmers will set an example , which will encourage their small backward neighbours . |
| 10 | In a trice , office machines can set the type and print it out in fine detail . |
| 11 | The majority in the State Council feared that these proposals would set a damaging precedent and , with the consent of the Tsar , rejected the bill . |
| 12 | Moves to lift the clause inserted in the company 's contract to prevent asset stripping after de-regulation of the buses would set a national precedent . |
| 13 | This infrastructural integration would , he hoped , stimulate a comparable integration of curriculum areas utilising the combined facilities , for which the developing IS and PSD courses would set the scene . |
| 14 | Most exporters would like to avoid exchange risk by invoicing in Sterling but they are now finding that markets will set the price and the method of pricing . |
| 15 | After the closing date , the organizers will set a ‘ striking price ’ which is best for the company . |
| 16 | A series of positive reports regarding homework tasks can set the tone of the group to follow . |
| 17 | Within the next few months , for instance , the party and unions should set the level of fines that recalcitrant unions would incur . |
| 18 | That ‘ the party and unions should set the level of fines that recalcitrant unions would incur ’ . |
| 19 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |