Example sentences of "to set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds , ‘ it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the government has taken power : ( a ) to set for each authority what is to be regarded as the ‘ needed ’ level of spending , ( b ) to enforce that level of spending by manipulation of grant' . |
| 2 | Leave to set for 24 hours . |
| 3 | Where we have the , the erm , responsibility for a formal consultation , er , then we need to set about that process as soon as possible to try and meet our deadline , Mr Chairman . |
| 4 | Foliage will be as important as flower , and we 'll need to think about texture — rough leaves versus smooth ; tall spiky plants to set against rounded shapes and so on . |
| 5 | Despite the tour results , with only two wins and two draws to set against four defeats , Sole cited the tour as a success in bringing on newcomers . |
| 6 | Most of her flowers therefore tend to be in blue , which she would really prefer to combine merely with white to set against all the greens of the garden — but soft shades of mauve and pink also creep in . |
| 7 | To set against that , however , Ford entered office at a moment when confidence in political leaders had collapsed catastrophically and when the anti-authority tradition embedded in the American political culture had resurfaced . |
| 8 | Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually . |
| 9 | Mergers between potential rivals , on the other hand , will almost certainly have adverse effects on market performance to set against any gains accruing from co-operative R&D . |
| 10 | To set against this the prosaic virtues of humility and obedience , and to make them seem not merely right but also interesting , is — when the writer is a fallen creature writing for other fallen creatures — an impossible task . |
| 11 | It is then important to set against this the qualitative assessments and for management to discuss the relative importance of each type of information before the final decisions are made . |
| 12 | To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance . |
| 13 | The old rate would still apply to essential imports , but it was planned to set in due course another new rate ( somewhere between the two ) for non-essential imports and possibly some types of export . |
| 14 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 15 | There was no atmosphere of narrow morality in the house — scarcely any evidence of mental activity at all , let alone a moral climate — but on the wall of the living-room was a pictorial chart of ‘ The Ascent to Heaven and the Descent to Hell ’ , snakes-and-ladders style , and on either side of the entrance to the everlasting bonfire were the figures of Venus and Bacchus , the whole chart a vulgar allegory to set beside that Bedfordshire classic , The Pilgrim 's Progress . |