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

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1 However in applications where the load is likely to fluctuate the timings must he set for the worst conditions ( i.e. largest load ) and the control scheme is then non-optimal for all other loads .
2 The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 .
3 All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success .
4 Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works .
5 Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode .
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