Example sentences of "it set [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier .
2 So I 'll have to get it set up ready for when I meet you from school and then we can switch it on as soon as we get home .
3 Insofar as it sets up such a process of necessary and constant supplementation , we could say that the impossibility of totalization produces a writing-effect whose process of perpetual deferral unremittingly provokes more writing .
4 You see a familiar name and it sets off all sorts of memories .
5 With the slogan , ‘ The Chance of the 90s : Investing in Eastern Germany ’ , it sets out good reasons why other countries should do so — points already apparently taken up by Britain as a major investor .
6 Parker said the group intends to step up this activity until sales levels justify it setting up local operations .
7 It set up two Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) , one for England and one for Wales , to advise the Minister of Education .
8 It set up complex criteria .
9 It set off packed from top to bottom with Sheffield area anglers , fishing rods and maggots and dropped you off on the canal at Clayworth where George lived until he died about ten years ago .
10 When it came , the eruption was of massive proportions and deposited a great thickness of ash which completely buried the town , and it set off great tidal waves which may have been responsible for the termination of the Minoan civilization by ravaging the coastal towns all around Crete .
11 It set back this possibility for nearly a decade , until after the slump had sent unemployment to twice the ‘ unacceptable ’ level of 1923 and the pattern of politics had once again been changed .
12 It set out legal penalties for such activity .
13 It set out these criteria for private sector funding :
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