Example sentences of "set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves . |
| 2 | The EC should set down minimum standards of health and safety and employee rights , leaving national governments and enterprises to decide how to meet them , subject ultimately to the judgement of the courts . |
| 3 | The rest of this chapter will set down three broad and differing perspectives on what should be the form of a new constitution for Britain . |
| 4 | The Word I can not set supremely high : |
| 5 | Authorities were also asked to produce local charters which could set more ambitious and specific targets . |
| 6 | If , for example , you have two lectures a week in a particular subject — say , on Tuesday and Thursday mornings — and a weekly tutorial — say , on Tuesday afternoons — then you should set aside regular time(s) — say , an hour or two on a Monday and another hour on , say , a Thursday — to study to and prepare for that class . |
| 7 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
| 8 | If they permit smoking , they should set aside special rooms for those who wish to smoke and for those who do not . |
| 9 | It tells judges that when statutes are disputed and precedents are of uncertain impact , they should set aside any idea that their decision can rest on rights already established through past political acts . |
| 10 | Finally , you should set aside some time every week to take stock of your work and your progress . |
| 11 | Farmers can set aside more than minimum requirement ( this takes in farmers on previous five-year scheme ) . |
| 12 | There are fears that the acquittal of William Lozano will set off renewed riots in a city fraught with racial tension between Hispanic and black communities . |
| 13 | Many people ( especially bankers ! ) claim that default by a major debtor government like Mexico or Brazil could set off financial shock-waves that would make the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987 look like a hiccup . |
| 14 | She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning . |
| 15 | He was very different from the dour young man who 'd set off all those years ago . |
| 16 | Menstrual cycles can set off specific urges . |
| 17 | I 'd I 'd set off watery moves it must be I 'd set |
| 18 | We may ask an observer to carry a device which records his position , velocity and acceleration as a function of time as he mingles with the crowd or we may set up two observation posts at the entrance and count the number of people per second passing across the space between the posts . |
| 19 | Today , we must again set up new industries but we are very concerned about those ‘ green fields ’ . |
| 20 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 21 | From here you can set up other applications to launch from within Q&A . |
| 22 | That did n't happen , but Hirst did set up one of the great matches of the season — and he would have won it but for a superb Peter Schmeichel save at 3-2 . |
| 23 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 24 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP ORNITHOLOGY REPORT SUGGESTS SWEDEN DENMARK AND FINLAND TOO COLD AT PRESENT TO OFFER SAFE REFUGE FOR MIGRATING SPECIMEN STOP THERE COULD BE A WARM NEST HERE HOWEVER AND AM INVESTIGATING STOP HOWEVER NESTING MATERIALS EXPENSIVE HERE SO WILL NEED CLEARANCE FOR APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS STOP SUGGEST 250000 WOULD SET UP THRIVING BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY STOP PLEASE CONFIRM THIS COURSE STOP MESSAGE ENDS STOP FRI 1730 GMT |
| 25 | Many projects have set out to demonstrate that they could set up efficient and effective monitoring systems . |
| 26 | Beginning next year , government and industry will set up five-year awards worth $100 000 a year . |
| 27 | As a necessary first step , authorities would set up internal trading accounts , to identify the true costs of providing each service . |
| 28 | Some Chinese students did set up pro-democracy groups overseas on a very small scale and took some risks in doing so , facing possible arrest and imprisonment on their return to China . |
| 29 | The school should also set up regular times for reviewing progress and should alert you to any difficulties your child may be experiencing . |
| 30 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |