Example sentences of "set a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set a floppy disk . |
| 2 | Set a floppy so it can be written to in drive A. |
| 3 | COWARDLY IRA terrorists set a cynical double bomb trap yesterday to bring fear to the heart of London . |
| 4 | Set a limited period for a trial and establish what you will try out and how you will test the results . |
| 5 | Set a splendid table with our 24-piece , stainless-steel cutlery set from Viners . |
| 6 | RIOTING prisoners yesterday set a deadly trap for warders — copied from a Columbo TV murder movie . |
| 7 | They set a marvellous example indeed . |
| 8 | At the peak of this hierarchy , Elizabeth I set a personal commander in each county , who was to have charge of the local militia ; the lord lieutenant thus became the monarch 's personal representative . |
| 9 | I next ran at Oslo where I set a personal best for 200 metres , so that was encouraging . |
| 10 | But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive . |
| 11 | Make sure managers and supervisors are familiar with the policy and procedures , and make sure too that they set a good example to the staff they supervise . |
| 12 | Erm we 'll have to consider our own lifestyles , and erm try and set a good example . |
| 13 | Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock . |
| 14 | RIGHT : This 22 lb 8 oz pike set a new personal best for police officer Paul May during a session at a West London pit . |
| 15 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 16 | The most memorable aspect of their doomed love was Henreid 's gallant — and erotic — way of lighting her cigarettes , which set a new fashion in flirtation . |
| 17 | Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ . |
| 18 | But he was not alone , John Wheway ( see left for more details ) also set a new British best , as did Arthur Keily and they both head their respective age groups in last year 's Veteran 's 10-mile road rankings . |
| 19 | The sequel to the classic first-person dungeon exploring romp that set a new technological milestone this year promises to go even further . |
| 20 | Instead , courts would in practice normally set a new payments schedule , allowing repossession ( or perhaps some form of money sanction instead ) if the new schedule was not kept up . |
| 21 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 22 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 23 | She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 24 | Novotna really made Seles fight in a hard-hitting battle that surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 25 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 26 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 27 | The 13 member countries also set a new target date of October 1991 for the implementation of a common external tariff ( CET ) on imports . |
| 28 | Their arrest came only days after they set a new world record for cycling at altitude across the Himalayas . |
| 29 | Space Biospheres Ventures , the private firm that built and runs Biosphere 2 , said the bionauts set a new world record for living in a closed system . |
| 30 | Amanda Tremble , who runs for North Shields Polytechnic , also set a new mark of 4 mins 42.1 secs in the intermediate girls 1500 metres , an improvement of six tenths of a second on Shirley Griffiths ' five-year-old record . |