Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the government was willing to set aside very limited funds for specialised and principally in-service training , it rejected a £40 million proposal from CCETSW to replace the two-year Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ( CQSW ) with a three-year programme leading to the award of the Qualifying Diploma in Social Work . |
| 2 | Blue eyes set rather too close for handsomeness , and a loose full mouth that was half smiling , one corner higher than the other . |
| 3 | Its apparent width is increased by the rectangular ports set just below sheer in each quarter . |
| 4 | Avoid over-spending in the first half of the year and set aside as much as you possibly can in the event of any tax demands or unexpected large financial outlays later . |
| 5 | Under the letter of intent , StorageTek agreed to issue 1.3m new shares Amperif shareholders and will set aside about 600,000 shares for warrants and employee stock options , valuing the company at $75.3m at the time of the announcement — but that valuation quickly improved to $83.6m as Storage shares shot up $4.375 to $44 even in after-hours trading on the news , and hovered round there on Friday . |
| 6 | A period twist is given to the proceedings — the story is set somewhere around 1964 , to judge from the careful references to Christine Keeler — and is adapted from Nicholas Rhea 's Constable books . |
| 7 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 8 | Pricing and availability for the Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics workstations will be set later on this year , the company said . |
| 9 | Friends of the Earth welcomed the licences in principle but said the limits had been set far too high , condemning " vast tracts of countryside to damage by acid rain for decades to come " . |
| 10 | If set too high these could damage the competitiveness of European exchanges by threatening the position of locals who are vital for liquidity on each exchange . |
| 11 | There is an implicit extraction set just as much in ( 21 ) — and in ( 16 ) — as in ( 20 ) : ( 21 ) Gustav 's chauffeur is the sanest the lady in the fur hat was ( the ) first In structures like ( 21 ) the extraction set is often given explicitly by means of a noun , but if not — as here — then it has to be derived from the context . |