Example sentences of "[adv] set the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Locke perhaps set the classic pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 3 | The appearance of Anna Seward , Anna Aikin Barbauld , Hannah More , Charlotte Smith , Helen Maria Williams and others , entailed that women were largely setting the poetic fashion from the late 1770s to the early 1790s . |
| 4 | JOHN SMITH , the shadow Chancellor , yesterday set the overriding tone for this week 's Labour Party conference with a warning that he would impose tough spending controls if Labour won the next election . |
| 5 | Still set the old way . |
| 6 | Regional winners from Solihull , Hoddesden , Telford , Westcliff , and two London clubs took off from Heathrow on a grey morning , courtesy of ELAL , to the sunshine of Israel 's southernmost resort and the Sport Hotel , where the organisers of the tournament , Clive Bertram and Ian Latham , duly set the competitive proceedings in motion . |
| 7 | The working man 's shoe must also set the right tone . |
| 8 | They had an answer to the argument about human progress described above : Periodic floods or other natural disasters had repeatedly set the human race right back to the beginning . |
| 9 | And Sadia has also introduced a small controller , allowing the user to accurately set the required temperature range . |
| 10 | I am sorry that the hon. Member for Blackburn is not here to set the hon. Member for Leeds , Central right . |
| 11 | Also provided , and not before time , are independent horizontal and vertical rules which means that keeping track of the number of lines of copy on a page is extremely easy , you simply set the vertical ruler scale to be the same as the leading . |
| 12 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 13 | In Roosevelt 's New Deal administration the bureau was brought under closer presidential control and two main effects became apparent : the bureau assisted the President in the difficult job of controlling his own bureaucracy , and the President 's programme , cleared and co-ordinated by the bureau , increasingly set the congressional agenda . |
| 14 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 15 | In other words , governments , which formally at least set the political agenda , have relatively limited lifespans . |
| 16 | Spatz nodded , still uncertain , then set the first file aside , opening the second . |
| 17 | Hunton , ( unfortunately later to be hanged for highway robbery ) took Tawell into his firm and virtually set the young man up . |
| 18 | What then sets the necessary distance between ? |
| 19 | I rolled the left-hand wheels back to seven-three-eight and with the latch closed again set the right-hand lock to one-three-seven . |
| 20 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |