Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Britain 's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a little flair . |
| 3 | These rules set out the order in which your relatives will inherit your property if you die without leaving a will . |
| 4 | These principles set out the desired aims of : |
| 5 | The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 . |
| 6 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 7 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 8 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 9 | Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues . |
| 10 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |
| 11 | Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance . |
| 12 | These Holy Ones set out the rules by which we can live our lives and , in turn , reach the state of a higher being which is dormant within each one of us . |