Example sentences of "set on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 2 | In the United States 35 states have legislation requiring all hospitals to provide a standard data set on each patient treated . |
| 3 | Stone funerary beds are set on each side of the main chamber . |
| 4 | The full council will confirm the charges set on 4 March . |
| 5 | Her sights are set on international competition . |
| 6 | The plain exterior circular walls partly supported the covering conical roof but , inside , six columns set on elliptical plan , assisted in this support . |
| 7 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the recent history of the DUP , despite journalists ' frequent attempts to portray Paisley as a man sufficiently set on personal power to be willing to compromise to achieve it . |
| 8 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 9 | This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost . |
| 10 | If , as we believe to be the case , powers are being so exercised , then the issue of constitutional legitimacy which arises is quite simple : what is the value or use of a constitution based on and designed to ensure the maintenance of a system of limited government if it can , quite lawfully and even constitutionally , be set on one side ? |
| 11 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 12 | The challenge will be set on 7 December and has to be carried out by 22 December . |
| 13 | Far from the slush of Hollywood 's romantic fifties films set on Balinese shores , this tropical island has a magical culture and scenery which enchant all who visit . |
| 14 | Traditionally these courses are for the more able , particularly those with their sights set on higher education . |
| 15 | Oh ! hear me witness that my heart is set on higher things ; it would sail into far seas unvisited of man , but always there is this anchor of the flesh chaining it to its native shore . ’ |
| 16 | It was set on various slopes . |
| 17 | Type is often set with extra space ; eg 9 point set on 10 point . |
| 18 | His will is set on continuous war . ’ |
| 19 | Both are basically shaped like upturned saucers set on rocky promontories above crags , and both look across dale in a basically northerly direction . |
| 20 | Turn it back again and set on three bricks . |
| 21 | Carl Llewellyn , again riding Party Politics , has his sights set on Red Rum 's record of three Grand National victories . |
| 22 | Matters came to a head when Anthony Coburn delivered his second storyline , a science fiction adventure set on thirtieth-century Earth , titled simply ‘ The Robots ’ . |
| 23 | With the USA , in the long term , set on irreversible decline the question is whether Japan or Europe can replace it as the world 's leading economy . |
| 24 | After all , he reminded himself , he was Prior William now and had his eye set on further promotion . |
| 25 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 26 | The toboggan consists of a wide wicker basket with a cushioned seat , set on wooden runners . |
| 27 | Kylie however has her sights set on another star , and another decade , the 1940s . |
| 28 | Massively symbolized by the uniform itself , as Douglas ( 1973 : 16 ) indicates , this obsession tends to focus on the body , for ‘ the more value people set on social constraints , the more value they set on symbols of bodily control ’ . |
| 29 | The Welsh Black has a deep , long body set on short legs . |
| 30 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |