Example sentences of "have [adv] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just set ambitious new targets for the next three years . |
| 2 | One reason is that the Government has always set upper limits to loan redemption periods . |
| 3 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 4 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 5 | And she had always set great store by common sense . |
| 6 | Some member states , for example France and Italy , have already set quantitative limits to their imports of Japanese cars . |
| 7 | The Scottish No1 , Russell Devine , has been joined by his Inverness team-mate , Dave Allan , and both have just set new personal bests . |