Example sentences of "set [adv] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 2 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 3 | And , qui and most certainly demonstrated the need to set up the very same committee as we have set up . |
| 4 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 5 | Colour and foliage can set off the most ordinary-looking house ‘ whereas a poorly kept garden with no trees or shrubs seems to place a dead hand on the house itself . |
| 6 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 7 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 8 | Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness . |
| 9 | There are ways of plotting the profile of the gore , and the mathematically minded will no doubt enjoy a computer exercise of setting up the progressively diminishing diameters , and the calculation of gore width at 10% stages from base to apex . |
| 10 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 11 | Since the question turns on the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , the problem is therefore one of statutory interpretation and it will be helpful to start by setting out the immediately relevant provisions of the Act : |
| 12 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 13 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 14 | Bertha Johnson was on the committees that organized a series of lectures for ladies from 1874 , set up the more ambitious Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford ( AEW ) in 1878 , and founded the Anglican hostel , Lady Margaret Hall , which opened , together with the undenominational Somerville Hall , in 1879 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern . |
| 16 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |