Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I set out the failed supper .
2 I set out the failed supper .
3 I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form .
4 It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning .
5 We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion .
6 We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values .
7 As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident .
8 We set out the political context of the strike ( second section ) , before analysing the most notorious mass picket of the dispute , the ‘ Battle of Orgreave ’ .
9 Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade .
10 We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles .
11 In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources .
12 It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state .
13 They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium .
14 During certain ten-minute intervals in her parents ' front room , while they set out the filthy plates for dinner , I have achieved much …
15 When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too .
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