Example sentences of "set the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 2 | Everyone who is made a priest is set the following ‘ weighty Office and Charge ’ at his Ordination Service : |
| 3 | Delight have set the following survey . |
| 4 | Co-ordinator Andrew Smart has set the following schedule to the end of April : |
| 5 | The Macleod Report of 1965 had set the Young Conservatives a target of a quarter of a million members , and it had declared the importance of political involvement . |
| 6 | Against the sometimes successful upward negotiation of wages by some groups of urban artisans must be set the long persistence of " customary " rates in other trades . |
| 7 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 10 | In my view many manufactured nets are skimped on width with the result that when they are set the necessary amount of slack within the net can only be achieved by the sacrifice of adequate height . |
| 11 | And Senegal , one of the 30 poorest nations in the world has set the best example of all . |
| 12 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 13 | ‘ And a pretty penny that must have set the good Canon back . |
| 14 | We were able to boast of having set the lowest rates in west London and of providing sufficiently good services to attract the Leader of the Opposition to Conservative-controlled Ealing from Liberal-controlled Richmond . |
| 15 | Writing shortly after the end of the war , Roger Manvell spoke of a ‘ cinematic poetry peculiar to British films ’ while Dilys Powell suggested that the films made during the war had ‘ set the English film on the path in which masterpieces may be created . ’ |
| 16 | According to this view , against the great strengths of Keynes 's principle of effective demand should be set the evident weaknesses of his supply-side analysis . |
| 17 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 18 | There was no proof that an initial spark from Christian extremists had set the whole affair in motion ; there was suspicion , and it is one aspect of the Orkney affair that attracted the attention of the feature writers . |
| 19 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 20 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 21 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , held a key role during Britain 's presidency of the EC and could have set the whole tone of the West 's approach to the problem . |
| 22 | The Society in consultation with the Regional Representatives has set the national priorities as being : — |
| 23 | When the net is set the top and bottom lines are tight , but the net itself remains slack . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As a comparison , he pointed out that if the entire population of China were set the same task , it would take them more than four hours to complete it . |
| 28 | She 'd been set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled to the camp from neighbouring war-torn Mozambique . |