Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |
| 2 | It is well worth spending a few minutes setting up the rails and lace carriage to see how it works even if you do n't want to knit with them at present . |
| 3 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 4 | We bought the machine and I spent several hours over the next few days setting up the system . |
| 5 | In current practice , individual competition decisions thus contain very long and detailed preambles setting out the reasons for the operative part which is , by comparison , quite short . |
| 6 | At one extreme one may find a written contract containing many detailed clauses setting out the terms of the contract . |
| 7 | It is best in such cases to set out the contra agreement in writing right at the outset . |
| 8 | The Justice Department has similar Guidelines setting out the situations in which vertical restraints are likely to attract attention from the authorities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Britain 's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a little flair . |
| 11 | These rules set out the order in which your relatives will inherit your property if you die without leaving a will . |
| 12 | These principles set out the desired aims of : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We we we 're empowered er by these orders to set up the new constituencies , er they do not actually come into effect to enable the elections to be held upon them er until all the countries of the E E C have agreed the changes that are necessary to accommodate the new numbers that er they will be having , er so the act , the ninety three act , has a commencement hour within it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But because of the cash required the Town Hall wants to join forces with other major employers to set up the scheme . |
| 18 | Sch 6 to the 1992 regulations sets out the information in respect of associated bodies that must be included in the notes to societies ' accounts . |
| 19 | You will recall that we have set a target date of 31 December 1987 for all submissions setting out the perceived needs of governing bodies of sport for national and sub-national facilities , to provide the basis of a 12-year implementation programme . |
| 20 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 21 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 22 | Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues . |
| 23 | With each post should come a set of educational objectives setting out the knowledge and skills that the doctor should have acquired by the end of the post . |
| 24 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |
| 25 | He and Tam Henderson spent two days setting up the recording equipment before the orchestra arrived . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | BP will also send out its two booklets setting out the options on application to Barry Halton , BP Exploration , 20 New Quay Road , Poole , Dorset . |
| 28 | 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 . |