Example sentences of "set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequences of failure there wo would certainly ha have meant her removal from office erm however she did calculate erm that within the limits she set that success would be , wo wo would in fact be the result , and it was . |
| 2 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 3 | HOW WOULD YOU REACT WITH A NINTENDO NES ACTION SET COMPLETE WITH LIGHT GUN AND GAMES ? |
| 4 | Shown here is the Garden Lamp Set complete with 100-hr lamps , shades , extension rods and support stakes so they can be placed anywhere around the garden . |
| 5 | We have limited the field to stored-program computers , and we further limit the field to general-purpose computers ; that is , to computers with an instruction set rich enough to perform a wide variety of tasks . |
| 6 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 7 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 8 | Between 1936 and 1938 , it set eight speed , distance and height records . |
| 9 | An insipid winter light dribbled in a thin gruel from a small pane of glass set low in the wall just above the camp bed on which he sprawled . |
| 10 | It was necessary for Ockleton to push an armchair out of the way to reach the cupboard he sought , set low in a corner wall . |
| 11 | But she fell in love with a gown set low over the bosom , and unadorned , but for a ribbon or two , in a soft peach that set off her copper tresses . |
| 12 | In his mid-June 1990 budget speech Saihou Sabally , then Finance and Trade Minister , set total domestic revenue at GD552,200,000 , a rise of 9.7 per cent over the previous year , with a projected deficit of DG59,400,000 . |
| 13 | The budget , for the fiscal year 1992-93 ( ending in June 1993 ) , set total expenditure at A$109,900 million ( a 4.1 per cent increase in real terms compared with the previous year ; US$1=A$1.3798 as at Aug. 17 , 1992 ) , while revenue was calculated at A$96,500 million ( an increase of 0.5 per cent ) . |
| 14 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 15 | You had to keep stirring all the time and , after an hour or so , the milk set solid and then was gently cut to allow the whey to flow out , leaving the curd . |
| 16 | Only in one major area , capital , has Parliament or central government set detailed rules reducing this freedom . |
| 17 | To move on , within this set some industries will be sustainable , some will not be . |
| 18 | But erm we set some traps then . |
| 19 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 20 | Here is an example of an objective set this way . |
| 21 | Twelve others have in effect set this limit by ratifying the International Covenant or the American Convention . |
| 22 | And if we set this on five . |
| 23 | Another new record set this summer was 1,796 rolls in two hours by Randy Fine of Miami in June . |
| 24 | And the power which set this realization in motion is the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | Erm and the reason we set this is that we are erm er the er , er we believe that this above average er growth in the in the , erm , er , earnings per share of the company is what shareh increases in shareholder value really depend on and er again to give an example erm , if you take the , the , the , the , the , the F T S E a hundred companies erm , and you do analyses of their er , growth rates and earnings per share you will find that the average growth rate was eleven and a half percent and ours er , was er , twenty , twenty percent so it 's above average remuneration erm , er , er , for above av for above average performance . |
| 26 | So I would say to this Council when they were in power they set compulsive competitive tendering that sent thirteen hundred people down the road . |
| 27 | If you 've had no success in slimming , remember that many diets are just too boring , set unrealistic targets and do n't promise long-term weight loss . |
| 28 | THE LAST week of the campaign began strangely — like a pas sage from Alice in Wonderland : the Prime Minister on his soapbox one minute , in a space-age film set another . |
| 29 | HOUSTON — BPX set another new Gulf of Mexico record for a horizontal well on the Amberjack Project . |
| 30 | I knew something about Catalonia but nothing about Andorra , except that it was a tiny independent principality , one of the world 's smallest countries , set high in the eastern Pyrenees . |