Example sentences of "and [adv] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will bring lots of new faces to Barbados and hopefully set new standards . ’ |
| 2 | Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees and warily allaying shadows shadow lies by a stump in a hollow of a body that is bold to come across clearings , an eye , a widening , deepening greenness brilliantly concentratedly coming about its own business till with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox , it enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 3 | Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees . |
| 4 | Later , on the picket line , there was a minor confrontation accompanying the arrival of morning convoy during which a police riot shield was captured and symbolically set alight . |
| 5 | Following Dixit ( 1987 ) , expressions for the price elasticity of demand and elasticity of substitution can be derived and then set equal to empirically observed values . |
| 6 | Further timber was then heaped round the base , soaked in paraffin and then set alight . |
| 7 | An effigy of Bartle , said to be a medieval sheep thief , though undoubtedly a much older figure , is paraded round the village after dark and then set alight . |
| 8 | First seized and then set free ; |
| 9 | Why — unless perhaps we are closet retributivists or reductivists — should not offenders simply be formally denounced with words and ceremony and then set free ? |