Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These principles set out the desired aims of : |
| 2 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 3 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 4 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 5 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |