Example sentences of "set the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 2 | Creative , determined to set the highest standards . |
| 3 | ‘ Did I remember to set the internal stabilizers ? |
| 4 | The government wants to set the technical standards of Poland 's public network and to retain the power to set ceilings on consumer prices . |
| 5 | Against this rather scanty evidence we have to set the 5 patients probably infected from an HIV-infected dentist . |
| 6 | The American had used Father to set the financial wheels turning for the takeover ; employed him , you might say ; and he 'd suggested the inside trade and how it might be made . ’ |
| 7 | Those of you familiar with car radios where you press ‘ vol ’ ‘ treble ’ ‘ bass ’ ‘ bal ’ or ‘ fade ’ and then use a single infinitely rotating knob to set the required levels , will know exactly how to operate the JMP-1 . |
| 8 | Second , however , he asserted that , if your Lordships ' House were to accept Woolwich 's argument , it would be impossible for us to set the appropriate limits to the application of the principle . |
| 9 | The Government — Mr John Patten — having learnt through the courts that teachers have the right to refuse to set the prescribed tests , now threatens to cut the headteacher 's salary and to take legal action against the governors of schools where the tests are not set . |
| 10 | However , if you are going to do this , then you need to set the same ACLs on all the relevant files . |
| 11 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 12 | You can set the contemporary pieces in motion yourselves . |
| 13 | They are responsible for the long range planning activities of the firm and they will set the overall goals . |
| 14 | ‘ That means Doyle did n't set the second locks . ’ |
| 15 | Then go upstairs , while I set the necessary wheels in motion , and wait for me . " |
| 16 | Therefore , we have decided that it would not be appropriate to introduce separate charges for sewerage and the provisions in the Bill for water and sewerage charges in Scotland will essentially maintain the existing system whereby regional and island councils set the appropriate levels . |
| 17 | If you set the right standards and she knows that she ca n't fool you , you 'll be all right . |
| 18 | Against these dark greens set the brilliant stems of Cornus alba ‘ Sibirica ’ , the red-barked dogwood , or Rubus cockburnianus , the ornamental blackberry with its silver arching stems . |
| 19 | Set the bloody swords and sweating steed ; |
| 20 | And if he did make his bed and then come in extra early this morning , like as not he 'd have relocked the door and set the internal alarms . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In particular , co-operative R&D ventures set the potential gains from internalizing technological spillovers and positive pecuniary externalities against the potential costs of a reduction in competition . |
| 23 | Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there , and set the green columns aglow . |
| 24 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 25 | The Macleod Report of 1965 had set the Young Conservatives a target of a quarter of a million members , and it had declared the importance of political involvement . |
| 26 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 27 | We were able to boast of having set the lowest rates in west London and of providing sufficiently good services to attract the Leader of the Opposition to Conservative-controlled Ealing from Liberal-controlled Richmond . |
| 28 | According to this view , against the great strengths of Keynes 's principle of effective demand should be set the evident weaknesses of his supply-side analysis . |
| 29 | The Society in consultation with the Regional Representatives has set the national priorities as being : — |
| 30 | If the physiotherapist sets the correct goals , they will be achieved , but she has to recognize that each patient reacts differently to rehabilitation , depending on a variety of factors . |