Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] set [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I would look for strategically positioned places , such as a corner or perhaps set high off the street .
2 It will bring lots of new faces to Barbados and hopefully set new standards . ’
3 Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees and warily allaying shadows shadow lies by a stump in a hollow of a body that is bold to come across clearings , an eye , a widening , deepening greenness brilliantly concentratedly coming about its own business till with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox , it enters the dark hole of the head .
4 Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees .
5 Later , on the picket line , there was a minor confrontation accompanying the arrival of morning convoy during which a police riot shield was captured and symbolically set alight .
6 Following Dixit ( 1987 ) , expressions for the price elasticity of demand and elasticity of substitution can be derived and then set equal to empirically observed values .
7 Further timber was then heaped round the base , soaked in paraffin and then set alight .
8 An effigy of Bartle , said to be a medieval sheep thief , though undoubtedly a much older figure , is paraded round the village after dark and then set alight .
9 First seized and then set free ;
10 Why — unless perhaps we are closet retributivists or reductivists — should not offenders simply be formally denounced with words and ceremony and then set free ?
11 With the Strategic Intent as our guiding principle , the company intends to demonstrate leadership , not only in its ability to respond quickly to new circumstances and challenges , but also to set new standards of customer service , product innovation and employee commitment .
12 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 .
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