Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] set the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The failure of this initiative set the firm back somewhat and it may find it difficult to recover . |
| 3 | Many of the papers in this volume set the human agent within a cosmology , a total moral universe of meaning . |
| 4 | Everyone in local government would accept that central Government set the broad parameters for overall spending , which is perfectly legitimate . |
| 5 | of yellow mustard set the grey skies flying . |