Example sentences of "setting [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the low scores , the Chairman of the Greens Committee was muttering darkly about setting more difficult pin positions the next day . |
| 2 | Head of Department : ‘ I 'll sound out the department on paint and the pupils on homework and think about setting more creative work over the two year ‘ A ’ Level course . ’ |
| 3 | Gradually this approach is giving way to one of setting more realistic goals for each individual , allowing him or her to develop , or not , at his or her own speed . |
| 4 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 5 | By setting more open-ended tasks he is encouraging pupils to do ‘ their maths ’ , although he is aware that he still controls the selection of these tasks . |
| 6 | SETTING FORTH ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT |
| 7 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 8 | Rather than setting unrealistically high expectations that you then fail to realise , or low expectations that become a self-fulfilling prophecy , take time out to sit and visualise a situation going well . |
| 9 | To — ‘ is he at all like you ? ’ — I must say — No — very categorically : setting aside personal appearances — he being stout — & good looking , — & I being ensiform , ( speaking botanically , ) that is — lanky — & considerably ugly , — we are , as far as I can judge — very opposite . |
| 10 | On the other hand it is the larger farms who can more easily ‘ afford ’ conservation , especially on small scale , both in terms of setting aside small land areas for less intensive agricultural management and in economic terms . |
| 11 | Setting aside adequate time for the discussion of purposes ( aim to identify a small number of common purposes as a starter ) . |
| 12 | Even in Europe we are setting aside whole farms for conservation because we do n't need the food and it rationalises the subsidy system . |
| 13 | Setting aside fanciful notions that Western fecundity declined through a surfeit of meat eating or a failure of ‘ racial vitality ’ ( Soloway 1982 ) , there is no evidence for declining fecundity . |
| 14 | Begin by setting exceptionally high standards in everything you do . |
| 15 | The Lithuanian government has already leased one 10-year-old Boeing 737 from GPA , and many western airlines are exploring the opportunities for setting up joint ventures using Western aircraft . |
| 16 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 17 | The move fits in with ICL 's strategy , begun three years ago , of developing ‘ arms-length ’ businesses ; basically setting up joint ventures and autonomous companies . |
| 18 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |
| 19 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
| 20 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 21 | Only in the later 1820s is there clear evidence not only of the pursuit of mass public meetings , as at Liverpool in April 1828 , but collaboration in setting up similar meetings in other major centres . |
| 22 | The company is now setting up similar paint ventures within other car plants , not just in America . |
| 23 | Now the group 's pledged 2 000 000 pounds over the next 4 years to setting up similar hostels elsewhere . |
| 24 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 25 | Work at setting up good information sources and networks . |
| 26 | Instead there can be a series of bilateral relationships within the framework of a multilateral treaty , effectively setting up other third party relationships . |
| 27 | Consequently , while the method chosen to resolve the economic crisis brought political as well as economic benefits , it also involved the risk of setting up other political and economic tensions which might ultimately defeat the object of the exercise : the consolidation and continuation of the Franco regime . |
| 28 | Those seeking a central role for the state will doubtless query the advantages of setting up friendly societies competing for members , when a universal service is provided by the state . |
| 29 | For example , setting up visual aids for presentations , laying on special effects , getting slides made , preparing reports , and putting together material from outside services . |
| 30 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |