Example sentences of "set [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subsequent research findings presented to Congress resulted in the Noise Control Act of 1972 ( later expanded into the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 ) which required the EPA to set standards of tolerable noise levels for all types of new equipment and machinery . |
| 2 | Athelstan stared at the closed , set faces of both knights . |
| 3 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 4 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 5 | The foreshore at low tide was indeterminate territory , setting problems of similar complexity to those posed by property rights in the seashore below high water mark . |
| 6 | They are setting standards of good practice that we in the Save The Children Fund can then help to spread . |
| 7 | As he set plates of cold meat , potato , and onion before us , he said , ‘ You do n't know how I am threatened . |