Example sentences of "set [adv prt] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if not that , then many critics would like to be dictators of literature , to regulate the past , and to set out with quiet authority the future direction of the art . |
| 2 | Here Is a watercolourist who in " Walton , early morning " can approach the exquisite gentleness of Chinese work and then , in " Pennine landscape " can set down with masterful boldness the rugged majesty of moor and sky . |
| 3 | Chemical warfare would set in with appalling ferocity , leaving the sward slimy with dead worms . |
| 4 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 5 | Fifty to eighty percent of my time goes to meetings , either with one of my engineers or in development meetings , or in planning functions , or — we have a series of meetings set up with this group since they provide a service to us — and oh , I do n't know — ten to twenty percent of my time [ is spent ] on the phone … and the rest of my time , either in filling out forms that I have to fill out or thinking , sometimes . |
| 6 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 7 | However , not all historians set out with this purpose . |
| 8 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 9 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 10 | Some writers probably set off with that idea in the back of their minds , but up to now Hannah has disarmed them all . |
| 11 | First a Cartesian coordinate system is set up with one vector a at a position A and the other b at position B ; a and b will be equal if their components are equal . |
| 12 | This new board has been set up with equal representation from CGLI and BTEC to validate and examine courses for the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) . |
| 13 | Some of them feel they have been by-passed in the new security structure that is being set up with American advice ; American officers are present at most police briefings . |
| 14 | These dispositions and their object — that of bringing Iran 's crude-oil export system to a standstill — were set out with ample detail and forceful purpose by the country 's leadership . |
| 15 | This argument was set out with particular clarity by James Mill in his celebrated Essay on Government , first published in 1820 . |
| 16 | She looked round the deep red walls of the dining room , set off with black paintwork . |
| 17 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 18 | The St Petersburg Assembly of Factory Workers , set up with official approval in February 1904 , broke loose from its sponsors and under the leadership of Father Gapon , a maverick but inspired orator , helped foster a virtual general strike in the capital . |
| 19 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |