Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 2 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 3 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 4 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 5 | We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion . |
| 6 | But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters . |
| 7 | Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery . |
| 8 | Let me set out the main provisions of the agreements we reached . |
| 9 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 10 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 11 | We set out the political context of the strike ( second section ) , before analysing the most notorious mass picket of the dispute , the ‘ Battle of Orgreave ’ . |
| 12 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 13 | We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles . |
| 14 | In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources . |
| 15 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 16 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 17 | During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much … |
| 18 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 19 | It sets out the agreed remit , including any constraints . |
| 20 | It sets out the Regional Council 's policies for the use of land and for transport . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it sets out the proper responses to the exhibition and precludes others as illegitimate and inappropriate to the subject . |
| 22 | It sets out the basic patterns , and looks at how they have changed over the years . |
| 23 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |
| 24 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 25 | He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence . |
| 26 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |
| 27 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 28 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 29 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 30 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |