Example sentences of "set the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The input is adjusted to set the output some standard level ( such as the rated output power ) . |
| 2 | It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . ) |
| 3 | Branagh 's version retains a Chorus — Derek Jacobi in voice-over or in twentieth-century mufti ( greatcoat and scarf ) , sometimes even sharing the frame with the action — though arguably the camera can be trusted to set the scene unaided . |
| 4 | Use the transition effect menu to set the way each graph will replace the previous one during the screen show or presentation . |
| 5 | If Australians , therefore , feel it is time to cut free from Britain constitutionally it is probably not before time — and who better to set the ball rolling than the man who provoked a diplomatic incident by daring to put his arm round the Queen during her visit last year ? |
| 6 | But to travel is to set the mind free . |
| 7 | The handling can best be described as ‘ good ’ ; with such a marked dihedral , lifting airfoil section and restricted elevator movement , you ai n't going to set the place alight . |
| 8 | We do n't want to set the place alight . ’ |
| 9 | Petrol bombs were used to try to set the place alight . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr. Olinton said it would be sure to set the hayfield alight , Heather , ’ said Shirley , panting up . |
| 11 | In Britain , the equivalent is Prestel which , though stocked with stacks of useful information ( though no Madame Whiplashes ) , has failed to set the world alight . |
| 12 | It might set the hay alight — and … ’ |
| 13 | I reject the argument put forward both by Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson that the Bank of England will suffer no ‘ inconvenience ’ if they have to apply to vary an injunction before they can set the section 39 process in motion ; in most cases they will probably not even know of the existence of an injunction until after the notice is served ; and it is idle to suggest that , once this present case is decided , no similar points to those taken here by the plaintiffs will be raised in future . |
| 14 | His old classmate , Gil Kenny , who later became a local police chief , said no one thought Jack would set the world alight . |
| 15 | Sevens , through very popular in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres , does not set the world alight in Southern Africa . |
| 16 | The film itself did n't set the world alight , but critics and movie-makers were impressed with the young stars . |
| 17 | The English team are full of great players who could set the world alight . |
| 18 | The quality of the ball reaching Simon Geoghegan may have compromised his chances to make the Lions party unless the selectors are aware that the young London Irish winger could set the world alight if provided with a bit of time and space . |
| 19 | They set the tone thirty-five years ago and it would be wonderful if our present team could capture ‘ Sam ’ now . ’ |
| 20 | It 's true that no one came in , but I think someone must have lifted the latch and set the door ajar , and then after all drawn back and closed it again , hearing the voices within and not wanting to interrupt . |
| 21 | FIRE broke out during a funeral at a crematorium yesterday and set the roof alight . |
| 22 | ‘ Some men beat yer farvver up an' then they set the ware'ouse alight , ’ Nellie said , her voice full of emotion . |
| 23 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 24 | THE wedding of red-hot lovers Kirsty and Karl Willey was such a scorcher it nearly set the town alight . |
| 25 | But the old London was being destroyed around him , and on 29 December 1940 , incendiary bombs set the City ablaze : life was peculiar now , he told Mary Hutchinson five days later , and in the preface to an anthology published in the following year , he discussed the problems of a " changing and bewildered world " . |
| 26 | Sergeant Ramsey 's 3-inch mortar was again brought into action , and a direct hit on the building 's roof with the third round was followed by a score of bombs through the resulting hole which set the place ablaze . |
| 27 | Maybe I could stack it up and set the place alight , so that they — and that terrible female they were now conspiring to bring to life — would perish in the flames , together with all Frankenstein 's instruments and notes . |
| 28 | I set the float two inches shallower , and then lay the rod down while I spend five minutes trickling maggots down the run . |
| 29 | You set the weight one sorry the weight , it 's probably it 's it 's hard to explain it like that , but you apply the decoder function F here F bracket to the particular tuple and you get a state J. So you set the weight for that particular state . |
| 30 | Guillaume makes an impressive debut and with more interesting material , his scenes with Anne Brochet would have set the screen alight . |