Example sentences of "[pers pn] sets [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insofar as it sets up such a process of necessary and constant supplementation , we could say that the impossibility of totalization produces a writing-effect whose process of perpetual deferral unremittingly provokes more writing . |
| 2 | You see a familiar name and it sets off all sorts of memories . |
| 3 | With the slogan , ‘ The Chance of the 90s : Investing in Eastern Germany ’ , it sets out good reasons why other countries should do so — points already apparently taken up by Britain as a major investor . |
| 4 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 5 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 6 | He sets down some , though not all , of the medical criteria for determining sex , and resolves that these criteria , while relevant , ‘ do not necessarily decide the legal basis of sex determination ’ . |
| 7 | That was two years after Green published his Guide in which he sets out these quoted ideas . |