Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 2 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 3 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 4 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 5 | It was a hundred almost of the grand stature of that which set up the historic victory here over West Indies a year ago , even if it was reached with a thick edge . |
| 6 | The Charters agreed by the Allied Powers which set up the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo and the judgments of those Tribunals made it clear that everyone , from the lowest private soldier to the highest general and statesman is required to comply with the humanitarian spirit and the generally accepted principles of the laws of war . |
| 7 | The 1984 PACE Act , the 1987 Criminal Justice Act ( which set up the Serious Fraud Office ) and the Criminal Justice Act of 1988 all contained measures which strengthened legal powers to investigate fraud . |
| 8 | J. T. Abbott , the Divisional Organiser , resigned from the Party and formed a Unity Committee which set up the Independent Socialist Party in May 1934 . |
| 9 | All that was available to claimants was the Supplementary Benefits Handbook which set out the broad basis upon which the SBC exercised its discretion . |
| 10 | However , such disadvantages could be minimized by elaborating the definition of extreme emotional disturbance so as to clarify its extent and its limitations , and by evolving sentencing guidelines which set out the major determinants of culpability . |
| 11 | Article 82 , which set out the leading role of the MPRP in the government , was removed from the Constitution ; there were 324 votes in favour and 10 abstentions . |
| 12 | A Home Secretary spends many hours conscientiously reading background papers which set out the whole history of a single police officer 's alleged offences , sometimes in a bundle of papers an inch thick , in order that justice and equity may be done . |
| 13 | Finally , in December 1945 , the Ministry of Civil Aviation 's White paper on British air services , Cmd. 6712 , which set down the new government 's aviation policy , was submitted to the Cabinet by Lord Winster . |
| 14 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 15 | We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion . |
| 16 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 18 | We set out the political context of the strike ( second section ) , before analysing the most notorious mass picket of the dispute , the ‘ Battle of Orgreave ’ . |
| 19 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 20 | We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles . |
| 21 | In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources . |
| 22 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 23 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 24 | These tremendous images … are not the whole of Christ 's teaching , but they set forth the supernatural mystery which is the heart of the teaching … . |
| 25 | During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much … |
| 26 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 27 | This balance was what set apart the New Testament view from its Greco-Roman surroundings . |