Example sentences of "[noun] set the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sharp gust of wind set the whole tree in motion and he dung on desperately like a sailor in the rigging , remembering Dalziel 's jocular injunction to ‘ watch himself ’ . |
| 2 | Australian Peter O'Marley set the early pace with a 4 under par 638 . |
| 3 | Zambia 's first development plan set the ambitious goal of providing primary school places for all children by 1970 . |
| 4 | of yellow mustard set the grey skies flying . |
| 5 | The failure of this initiative set the firm back somewhat and it may find it difficult to recover . |
| 6 | They rose 10 per cent on 2 August , and also moved up when the UN imposed sanctions , when Iraq refused the UN 's call for withdrawal and when the UN set the 15 january deadline . |
| 7 | Experience of cooperation during the war set the final seal . |
| 8 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 9 | Many of the papers in this volume set the human agent within a cosmology , a total moral universe of meaning . |
| 10 | Riding the PJ O'Kane Yamaha , which he will ride at next month 's TT races in the Isle of Man , Robert averaged 114.84mph , while second placed man McCallen set the fastest lap at 115.44mph . |
| 11 | Everyone in local government would accept that central Government set the broad parameters for overall spending , which is perfectly legitimate . |
| 12 | Beth Shepherd set the two bags down on the kitchen table then went to the garden door and undid the top catch . |
| 13 | Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer . |
| 14 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 15 | In the long run it may be correct to argue , as Patricia Branca has done , that doctors were ‘ the logical answer to the middle class woman 's increasing desire for self-improvement and self-control ’ , but evidence suggests that medical and scientific expertise set the basic framework for discussion and action within which women tended to respond — albeit not always in an anticipated manner — rather than initiate . |
| 16 | Support on the first night is provided by Dutch quartet Bettie Serveert , while Kristin Hersh plays an acoustic set the following evening . |
| 17 | Hockley set the early pace with a one-over-par aggregate of 151 , three shots clear of Kate Egford , another England international from Kent . |
| 18 | Rice production improved markedly during 1989 , with government economists at the December plenum forecasting rice harvests exceeding the 20,000,000-tonne production target set the previous year ( and compared with 17,600,000 tonnes harvested in 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Put the rest of your spel , er your stage set the other side . |
| 20 | In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role . |
| 21 | So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased ; I 'm quite proud of it . |
| 22 | The assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo on 28 June set the European powers at each other 's throats , and in little over a month Great Britain was at war with Germany . |