Example sentences of "[conj] set the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The event that set the modern Pacific on its unrelenting climb towards world dominion happened , by an entirely appropriate coincidence , to be the first ever shown clear across America , on coast-to-coast television . |
| 2 | Brindley died in Staffordshire in 1772 , and although he did not live to see the realization of his dream , his was the unlettered genius that set the great age of canal-building in motion . |
| 3 | In one unbeatable Collection — the starts and sounds that set the whole world rocking ! |
| 4 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 5 | Who is it that sets the going rate for our work ? |
| 6 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 7 | Significantly , for Lukacs , it is precisely the material situation of the writer in relation to socialism that sets the socialist realist apart from the bourgeois critical realist . |
| 8 | We shall here use adjectival position to mean any construction which has the function of realizing some distinct pattern of intensional relations , and which meets the following criteria : ( a ) It contains an adjective as one of its elements ; ( b ) It is minimally extended for that adjective , i.e. there are no further elements dependent on the adjective ( since all such phrases will reduce in their structural effect to a single occurrence of adjective anyway ) ; ( c ) It is minimally complete for that adjective ; that is , the adjective achieves its structural effect within the construction , so that setting the whole pattern into a larger construction can not change the effective value of the adjective . |
| 9 | But presumably there were one or two great exponents around at that time that set the whole thing off ? |
| 10 | as if to set the final scene , the moon now rode majestically clear of the clouds , forming a hard , bright discus in the star-pitted blackness of the night . |
| 11 | Robert averaged 104.87 for the four laps and set the fastest lap of the race at 105.86mph . |
| 12 | Use the /Graph command and set the X data series to D2 … |
| 13 | And if he did make his bed and then come in extra early this morning , like as not he 'd have relocked the door and set the internal alarms . " |
| 14 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 15 | They agreed and set the following Monday , 27 February , as the test date . |
| 16 | Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there , and set the green columns aglow . |
| 17 | Waiting for the King to speak , he could hear the gust claw through the heather behind him and set the flowering whin , silk and tinsel , rubbing together , bough against bough . |
| 18 | They had a pyrotechnic display in the back lounge and set the whole inside of the coach alight . |
| 19 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 20 | He finished off his drink and set the empty glass down on the table with exaggerated care . |
| 21 | Unperturbed , Albert Booth ( Labour 's transport spokesman ) raised steam and set the parliamentary engine moving in the great Westminster marshalling yard . |
| 22 | The latter and associated rubber air pipes caught alight and set the main avionics loom on fire . |
| 23 | Restring the guitar and set the desired action height , checking the intonation and string alignment ; a certain amount of alignment correction is allowed by moving the neck laterally ( slacken the four neck bolts slightly , move neck , retighten bolts ) . |
| 24 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 25 | A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock . |
| 26 | And setting the right angle comes in rehearsal ? |
| 27 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 28 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |