Example sentences of "[coord] set [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of preparatory meetings held on Sept 23-24 , the IMF 's policy-making Interim Committee agreed to assist developing countries to cope with the economic burdens of the Gulf crisis without , however , committing any new resources or setting a minimum level on the amount of total assistance . |
| 2 | In its place the aim was to build up communities on the periphery equipped with all the necessary facilities , including local employment and to set a firm limit to the size of these communities . |
| 3 | The parliament met in Luxembourg to establish a European pressure group for the rights of pensioners and to set a common standard pensioners could use to lobby their own governments . |
| 4 | Erm we 'll have to consider our own lifestyles , and erm try and set a good example . |
| 5 | And if he did make his bed and then come in extra early this morning , like as not he 'd have relocked the door and set the internal alarms . " |
| 6 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 7 | They agreed and set the following Monday , 27 February , as the test date . |
| 8 | She brought back three cups made from her favourite blend , gave one to Felicity and set the other two on her desk . |
| 9 | Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there , and set the green columns aglow . |
| 10 | Waiting for the King to speak , he could hear the gust claw through the heather behind him and set the flowering whin , silk and tinsel , rubbing together , bough against bough . |
| 11 | They had a pyrotechnic display in the back lounge and set the whole inside of the coach alight . |
| 12 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 13 | He finished off his drink and set the empty glass down on the table with exaggerated care . |
| 14 | Unperturbed , Albert Booth ( Labour 's transport spokesman ) raised steam and set the parliamentary engine moving in the great Westminster marshalling yard . |
| 15 | The latter and associated rubber air pipes caught alight and set the main avionics loom on fire . |
| 16 | Restring the guitar and set the desired action height , checking the intonation and string alignment ; a certain amount of alignment correction is allowed by moving the neck laterally ( slacken the four neck bolts slightly , move neck , retighten bolts ) . |
| 17 | The increase was a carbon copy of Halifax Building Society 's increase on Monday and sets a firm benchmark which most other societies will now follow . |
| 18 | The compare instruction on the IBM 1401 computer Compare A B sets an equality indicator if the character string in the field at address A is exactly the same as the character string in the field at address B , and sets a high or low indicator appropriately if they are unequal ( using the collating sequence shown in Figure 2.19 ) . |
| 19 | It places high worth on loyalties — employee , customer , social — and sets a compassionate state at the centre of these values , providing both decent social provision and a regulated environment for fair competition . |
| 20 | The WHO report says we do n't need sugar and sets an upper limit of 10 per cent of total calorie intake from added sugar . |
| 21 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 22 | A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock . |
| 23 | Philip Stamford-Bewlay and Mrs Sheila Brown claimed the council was ‘ lowering its standards ’ and setting a dangerous precedent for future developments . |
| 24 | The 1989 Children Act is a major piece of legislation , tidying up a tangle of previous law ( including the Wills Act , 1837 and the Mines and Quarries Act , 1954 ) , and setting a new agenda for British public child care practice . |
| 25 | And setting the right angle comes in rehearsal ? |
| 26 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 27 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 28 | On Feb. 20 an agreement with Germany first planned in April 1991 was officially finalized , forgiving half of Poland 's DM9,100 million ( about US$5,520 million ) debt to Germany and setting an 18-year repayment schedule for the rest . |
| 29 | Konrad showed his young helpers how to make a simple thermometer , illustrate the Davy lamp principle with a kitchen sieve ; and set a warm , upturned wine glass gliding across a smooth surface like a miniature hovercraft . |
| 30 | The recent Indian Supreme Court judgement that the US Multlnational , Union Carbide , pay $470 million by way of compensation to the victims of the world 's largest industrial accident , elicited sharply polarized reactions and set a dangerous international precedent . |