Example sentences of "[adv] set [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 2 | John Locke perhaps set the classic pattern . |
| 3 | I merely set a few wheels in motion . ’ |
| 4 | Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock . |
| 5 | Instead , courts would in practice normally set a new payments schedule , allowing repossession ( or perhaps some form of money sanction instead ) if the new schedule was not kept up . |
| 6 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 7 | RIOTING prisoners yesterday set a deadly trap for warders — copied from a Columbo TV murder movie . |
| 8 | JOHN SMITH , the shadow Chancellor , yesterday set the overriding tone for this week 's Labour Party conference with a warning that he would impose tough spending controls if Labour won the next election . |
| 9 | Still set the old way . |
| 10 | Regional winners from Solihull , Hoddesden , Telford , Westcliff , and two London clubs took off from Heathrow on a grey morning , courtesy of ELAL , to the sunshine of Israel 's southernmost resort and the Sport Hotel , where the organisers of the tournament , Clive Bertram and Ian Latham , duly set the competitive proceedings in motion . |
| 11 | Amanda Tremble , who runs for North Shields Polytechnic , also set a new mark of 4 mins 42.1 secs in the intermediate girls 1500 metres , an improvement of six tenths of a second on Shirley Griffiths ' five-year-old record . |
| 12 | The 13 member countries also set a new target date of October 1991 for the implementation of a common external tariff ( CET ) on imports . |
| 13 | She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 14 | Novotna really made Seles fight in a hard-hitting battle that surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 15 | Also provided , and not before time , are independent horizontal and vertical rules which means that keeping track of the number of lines of copy on a page is extremely easy , you simply set the vertical ruler scale to be the same as the leading . |
| 16 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 17 | In Roosevelt 's New Deal administration the bureau was brought under closer presidential control and two main effects became apparent : the bureau assisted the President in the difficult job of controlling his own bureaucracy , and the President 's programme , cleared and co-ordinated by the bureau , increasingly set the congressional agenda . |
| 18 | In other words , governments , which formally at least set the political agenda , have relatively limited lifespans . |
| 19 | A couple of grenades then set a nearby house alight . |
| 20 | Spatz nodded , still uncertain , then set the first file aside , opening the second . |
| 21 | Hunton , ( unfortunately later to be hanged for highway robbery ) took Tawell into his firm and virtually set the young man up . |
| 22 | I rolled the left-hand wheels back to seven-three-eight and with the latch closed again set the right-hand lock to one-three-seven . |