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 Word I can not set supremely high : |
| 4 | Authorities were also asked to produce local charters which could set more ambitious and specific targets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If they permit smoking , they should set aside special rooms for those who wish to smoke and for those who do not . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Menstrual cycles can set off specific urges . |
| 10 | I 'd I 'd set off watery moves it must be I 'd set |
| 11 | Today , we must again set up new industries but we are very concerned about those ‘ green fields ’ . |
| 12 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 13 | From here you can set up other applications to launch from within Q&A . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Many projects have set out to demonstrate that they could set up efficient and effective monitoring systems . |
| 16 | Beginning next year , government and industry will set up five-year awards worth $100 000 a year . |
| 17 | As a necessary first step , authorities would set up internal trading accounts , to identify the true costs of providing each service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The school should also set up regular times for reviewing progress and should alert you to any difficulties your child may be experiencing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is primarily an explanatory one , it connects problems and explains why they are problems , and who for , and so does not set up bite-sized problems for the reformer to tackle one by one . |
| 22 | The state would continue to own land , but peasants could work their plots as their own businesses , employ labour , and pass on farms to their heirs , and members of co-operatives could set up private businesses . |
| 23 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 24 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 25 | Within two years , all listed companies should set up effective audit committees . |
| 26 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |
| 27 | ‘ We will set up temporary facilities if the building is unable to support normal trading . |
| 28 | At the other extreme you could set up giant screens to show large images of the speaker as we do in larger conferences such as the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 29 | They must set up costly systems of command and control that can work effectively over large distances and deal with the hazards of markets that differ from their own , Managers must feel that the gains will outweigh the costs . |
| 30 | This Service would provide legal help to CABx and other social agencies , similar to that hitherto provided by solicitors to CABx on an honorary basis ; would establish close liaison between the local profession and CABx and other social services ; would provide oral advice for the public in cases that could be readily disposed of ; would maintain permanent advisory centres where necessary , offering advice and assistance short of proceedings or representation in court ; and would set up permanent local centres offering representation in magistrates ' courts and county courts and the conduct of litigation so far as this could not be absorbed by solicitors ' firms . |