Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A transition between the fully closed and fully open current levels occurred when the current crossed a threshold set halfway between these two states . |
| 2 | Sometimes we will wish to use the add instruction without modification by the index register , so we need an extra bit set aside in all such instructions , to specify whether or not the modification of the operand field by means of the index register is to take place . |
| 3 | The devaluation debate also needs careful examination before Labour or Livingstone set off down another dead end . |
| 4 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 5 | He changed his mind , and set off in another right direction , but this offered only more hills . |
| 6 | Such was the family interest in the native tank that the tropical marine aquarium was dismantled and set up as another native environment . |
| 7 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 8 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 9 | One thing all the armies had in common was a careful explanation of their presence , a specific mandate set out in such complex detail that officials of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry were sometimes still trying to decipher its true meaning when the army in question was retreating out of Lebanon . |
| 10 | The issue , concerning personal versus institutional development , set out in these two very different statements of Taylor and Jones is a fundamental one . |
| 11 | The 13-year-old West Bridgford LTC player managed to grapple his way from one set behind in this epic encounter , eventually wearing down a smaller-framed Neathey to take the match by two sets to one . |