Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You can do this each year on a percentage basis which you set for that year on the basis of your knowledge of the church-going habits of the congregation .
2 She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it .
3 Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers .
4 And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project .
5 But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent .
6 So , too , might the mandated curriculum , be it set at national or provincial level , in its fixing of external curriculum objectives and its restriction of teachers ' room for manoeuvre .
7 Bentham also gave consideration to the notion of an optimum size for establishments which , in the case of the Panopticon , he set at 2000 " hands " ( Hume , 1981 p 142 ) .
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