Example sentences of "set [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Department of Agriculture 's proposals for the 1990 farm bill , introduced on Feb. 9 , 1990 , to set policy for the next five years , failed to address the issue of subsidy levels and merely proposed modifications to the current programme . |
| 2 | Then , confident that we had n't missed many , we set course for the larger island of Whalsay . |
| 3 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 4 | Paul Dart , set designer for the Royal Opera House , created this shop display at Obsessions using revolving mobiles and disco lights . |
| 5 | Eventually — and with some relief — we were out into open water and setting course for the other two large islands in the group , Barentsøvya and Edgeøya . |
| 6 | This was a formal process which focused on staff development by setting goals for the coming year . |
| 7 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 8 | If one follows through the possible implications of this , one comes to the thought that perhaps language should be presented , to learners primarily in lexical terms , setting conditions for the gradual emergence of syntax as a focusing device — the very converse of conventional practice . |
| 9 | Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities . |