Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA . |
| 2 | J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) . |
| 3 | Its success checked sanitary dominance and set the tone of moral regulation for at least a generation . |
| 4 | So once we adopt this purposive , functional approach and set the problem in its structural context social behaviour makes sense without invoking hypothetical historical antecedents . |
| 5 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 6 | This latter component has a relatively large value and sets the — 3db point in the bass region . |
| 7 | ‘ The UK is the No 1 volume market for New Zealand by a large margin and sets the scene for the other markets . ’ |
| 8 | Switch the camcorder back to record mode , check the white balance and set the focus to auto so that you can concentrate all your attention on the picture . |
| 9 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 10 | The artistic ferment of the late sixth century led in sculpture directly to the abandonment of the central archaic convention , the formally posed frontal statue in traditional stance ; a change which inaugurated the Greek classical style and set the course for European art . |
| 11 | Piatakov , a Ukrainian , now argued that , following Lenin 's April theses , prepared on his return to Russia , which rejected the existing party policy of supporting the provisional government and set the Party on the road to the seizure of power , socialism was on the immediate agenda , not the establishment of a bourgeois republic . |
| 12 | A Soviet writer argued in 1979 that the growing participation of Latin American states in the Non-Aligned Movement directly affected the character of relations in the inter-American system and set the question of its ‘ basic restructuring ’ on the agenda . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , some assume that mastery is an all-or-nothing state and set the standard at 100 per cent although there is some flexibility depending on the nature of the errors made , if these are few . |
| 15 | Moments later , as Lake Balkhash slipped away below him , Vologsky made a minor adjustment and set the Foxbat on a course which would take it directly over the home missile bases at Alma-Ata . |