Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] set the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check .
2 Victory tomorrow night would set the ace jumper up nicely for its main objective next month 's Daily Mirror/Sporting Life Grand National at Hall Green .
3 The Department of the Environment could set the total grant for local authorities , and announce it .
4 That summit will set the future course for NATO to ensure that it remains as it has been — a bedrock of stability in a still uncertain world .
5 Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society .
6 The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference .
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