Example sentences of "set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can do no more here than set down general guidelines . |
| 2 | The means test is now being set so low that only people who are unemployed or have incomes near benefit levels will be able to obtain free legal help . |
| 3 | As the Ruddock case has shown , the standard of review employed in national security cases is set so high that it is possible that the Tribunal could be compelled to refrain from interfering with discretionary decisions taken for this reason . |
| 4 | His position develops into scepticism proper ( i.e. the view that knowledge is impossible rather than merely rarer than one thinks ) when the standards are set so high that they can not be fulfilled . |
| 5 | Taking out one of the choppers before it gets chance to launch any missiles is stupendously satisfying , and the difficulty level is set exactly right . |
| 6 | Twice in the last decade police shootings of blacks have set off extensive rioting . |
| 7 | Tony Tucker , a director of syndications and asset trading at Continental Bank in London , reckons that GPA 's woes have set off new competition among brokers of distressed bank debt . |
| 8 | The killings had set off widespread rioting in the occupied territories and in Jordan . |
| 9 | The US , Soviet Union , Canada , Finland , Sweden , Norway , Denmark and Iceland have also set forth joint plans to cope with environmental emergencies such as oil spills in Arctic waters . |
| 10 | The ‘ pay factor ’ was always set unrealistically low as an opening gambit by the Treasury to keep pay expectations down and to put a further squeeze on public services . |
| 11 | Against these negative memories may be set more frequent instances of closeness and admiration . |
| 12 | Most restaurants and cafes have set aside small no-smoking areas but wo n't be enforcing the rule . |
| 13 | Land is set aside subject to the Weeds Act . |
| 14 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
| 15 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |
| 16 | Well , i i i i in that sense it 's logical that they 're the ones that do er the hunting and I guess the way it 's set up logical I think |
| 17 | In France Jean-Paul Kauffman 's colleagues were paying a percentage of their salaries towards the campaign , and several colleagues at WTN had set up regular standing orders into our bank account . |
| 18 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 19 | All the emergency services … and gas and electricity workers … have set up real life situations that youngsters may face . |
| 20 | An example is the recently set up Cefic Environmental Advisory Service for Technology Transfer ( EASTT ) programme , which aims to help eastern Europe improve its environmental performance and energy consumption . |
| 21 | This special facility , initially set up effective 1962 and enabling the 11 to lend reserves to the IMF , was designed to meet balance-of-payment problems so serious that they could threaten the stability of the entire international monetary system . |
| 22 | The LTTE 's Tamil rivals , the groups which had set up provincial governments under IPKF protection , were destroyed and many thousands fled to Tamil Nadu state in southern India . |
| 23 | In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data . |
| 24 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 25 | On the precise matter that he raised regarding Scotland , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has set up working parties to advise on the need for early action on the Cairngorms , Loch Lomond and the Trossachs . |
| 26 | Before the 1964–70 Labour government made it Department of Education and Science policy , a number of local authorities had already set up comprehensive schools . |
| 27 | We have set up new Regional Arts Boards and supported the Scottish and Welsh Arts Councils in order to diversify and enrich cultural life throughout the country . |
| 28 | Statutory agencies will have to use a judicious mixture of grant and contract to help set up new organisations run by the community for the community , to create the range and choice required by consumers . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Menter Bro Ddyfi has set up new computer courses at the school , which commence next week . |
| 30 | Then there is a real question of municipal power , now that socialist ‘ decentralisation ’ has set up regional councils . |