Example sentences of "[verb] set the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government wants to set the new system to work from January 1 . |
| 2 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 3 | This will require considerable competence on behalf of the teacher who will need to set the general framework . |
| 4 | And Senegal , one of the 30 poorest nations in the world has set the best example of all . |
| 5 | Co-ordinator Andrew Smart has set the following schedule to the end of April : |
| 6 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 7 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 8 | The firms with the best teams — analysts , jobbers , corporate lawyers , financial PR men , whatever — those were the firms who were going to set the going rate and get it . |
| 9 | Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune . |
| 10 | This study aims to set the current problem in its context by describing developments in the relationship between central and local government between 1945 and 1983 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , she argues the case for continuing to set the micro-political perspective in the context of a macro-political explanation of social relations . |
| 12 | And I think it does show that the Greens are continuing to set the political agenda . |
| 13 | ‘ And a pretty penny that must have set the good Canon back . |
| 14 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , held a key role during Britain 's presidency of the EC and could have set the whole tone of the West 's approach to the problem . |
| 15 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 16 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 17 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 18 | There was no proof that an initial spark from Christian extremists had set the whole affair in motion ; there was suspicion , and it is one aspect of the Orkney affair that attracted the attention of the feature writers . |
| 19 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 20 | Delight have set the following survey . |