Example sentences of "set [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And to set criteria for this strategic site exception policy which we feel should be added to the plan , to set this criteria in such a way that it would so point to the local authorities in the making of their local plans but it was clear that the policy did not provide a speculative opportunity for everybody any landowner throughout the county .
2 to deal with entries entailing exemption from part of the Course on behalf of the Polytechnic Dispensations Committee , to set appropriate conditions for such entries and to report them to the Dispensations Committee ; and
3 THE European Commission yesterday promised to set minimum prices for some fish in an attempt to placate French trawlermen who went on the rampage at Paris 's wholesale food market in a second day of anger at low prices and British imports .
4 As the organising committee we set three objectives for this conference .
5 I 've heard the theory but you ca n't actually set measurable standards in all the jobs can you ?
6 The removal of the binary line which had separated the universities and the former polytechnics and central institutions will set new challenges for all institutions of higher education .
7 Organization was the key to successful and rapid mobilization , and the Prussian army had set new standards for all armies by its performances against Austria and France .
8 The school board sets broad goals for all schools to meet , along with their own goals and priorities .
9 Let us try setting some adjectives of this type into ordinary sentences : ( 34 ) our future chairman smokes heavily Lorraine showed herself a real friend Charlie 's old school has some fine pictures The obvious points may be made : the " chairman " is already alive , there need be no doubt about Lorraine 's existence , and Charlie 's school may be relatively new .
10 Somerset 's weavers complained in 1726 of their masters " paying their wages in goods , and setting extravagant prices on such goods " .
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