Example sentences of "set [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the house there was all the festive cheer of last year and the same glorious whiff of sage and onion which set my gastric juices surging . |
| 2 | The wind from the verandah set their long cloaks billowing and the candle flames aflutter . |
| 3 | And he should make it plain that Parliament will yield no further on the right of the British people to make their own laws , issue their own currency , set their own taxes and elect their own Government , free of foreign domination . |
| 4 | There are no legal limits on the amount of residue , although some large retailers ( eg Marks and Spencer ) set their own limits . |
| 5 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 6 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 7 | Republics would be able to draw up their own budgets , and set their own taxes . |
| 8 | King Edward VII opened a new highway in London , aptly named Kingsway , and the marine engineers , Thornycrofts , decided to remove from their Church Wharf , Chiswick premises and set their expanding business in Woolston at Southampton . |
| 9 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 10 | Recently , the federal government set its own minimum standards for landfills . |
| 11 | Fiji can learn from the mistakes of so-called developed countries and set its own standards and policies . ’ |
| 12 | Fiji can learn from the mistakes of so-called developed countries and set its own standards and policies . ’ |
| 13 | Catch quotas in the open seas are set by the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization , but the EC set its own , higher , quotas in 1986 in response to pressure from the depressed Iberian fishing industry . |
| 14 | He could have buried his face in it , seeking darkness , but she set her cool fingers on the back of his neck and his head seemed to clear . |
| 15 | It had been deepest at the moment just inside the Bleech-Palmer front door when , as always , Daphne set her plump hands on Cecilia 's shoulders and lifted her lips to Cecilia 's cheek . |
| 16 | Rose set her free . |
| 17 | And he set her free . |
| 18 | ‘ She had been brought out to Romiley in a car by two men who had poured petrol on her and set her alight . ’ |
| 19 | In a particularly devastating tantrum , it was Enlil who was responsible for engendering the Great Flood , having first saved the moon and set her adrift in a boat . |
| 20 | And Ruth felt she had n't understood till now what it meant , to be Jake 's daughter ; she 'd never guessed that one day he would turn to her like this , calling her to understand all the past and set her own strength beside his . |
| 21 | Startled by the suddenness of the question , she set her own glass down and stared back at him . |
| 22 | So she thought she knew the sector , and set her favourite ideologue , Sir Keith ( now Lord ) Joseph to give the universities a brisk , introductory course in Thatcherite economics . |
| 23 | At that moment Ruby gave a growl that set her loose flesh trembling . |
| 24 | She showed a distinctively un-retriever-like fear of water , so eventually I carried her out and set her afloat . |
| 25 | After his return in August 1908 from a packed five-day trip he set his civil servants at the Treasury to explore means of setting up a similar scheme for Britain . |
| 26 | He set his closest co-operator , Olavide , to reform the Madrid Hospital for poor invalids and attempted to clear all beggars out of Madrid . |
| 27 | Following the professor 's agreement to the material , Leonard now set his own hand to the matter entirely , learning at 21 the art of negotiation with typesetters , printers , binders and designers . |
| 28 | In this lecture , " To Criticize the Critic " , he set his own prose writings in historical perspective — once more setting the past in order — but it is also notable for the manner in which he asserted the presence in his theoretical judgments of private feeling and experience ; phrases like " the objective correlative " and " the disassociation of sensibility were , for him , " conceptual symbols for emotional preferences " . |
| 29 | At dawn on April 2nd Colonel Himler Rebu of the Leopard battalion ( which thinks of itself as Haiti 's finest ) arrested General Avril in the presidential palace , set his own men to patrol the streets and said he was in charge now . |
| 30 | He still refused to let the old woman call in any other doctor , and set his own leg , though not quite perfectly ; hence the limp . |