Example sentences of "set [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Paul Dart , set designer for the Royal Opera House , created this shop display at Obsessions using revolving mobiles and disco lights .
3 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 .
4 This was a formal process which focused on staff development by setting goals for the coming year .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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