Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , in December 1945 , the Ministry of Civil Aviation 's White paper on British air services , Cmd. 6712 , which set down the new government 's aviation policy , was submitted to the Cabinet by Lord Winster . |
| 2 | The adrenaline makes her giggle , and still rising noradrenaline levels set off the familiar beat of passion . |
| 3 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 4 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 5 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | Some of its leading citizens acquired great wealth , especially from saffron and wine , and landed property , in the course of the twelfth century , and they displayed their newfound status by building the lofty towers which still make the skyline of the city so beautiful and so absurd — beautiful especially from a little distance , for the rolling Tuscan hills set off the imaginative colour and the dramatic skyline to remarkable effect . |
| 7 | The 1984 PACE Act , the 1987 Criminal Justice Act ( which set up the Serious Fraud Office ) and the Criminal Justice Act of 1988 all contained measures which strengthened legal powers to investigate fraud . |
| 8 | Set up the logical name as follows : |
| 9 | It was a hundred almost of the grand stature of that which set up the historic victory here over West Indies a year ago , even if it was reached with a thick edge . |
| 10 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 11 | Last year the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and the Association of Social Research Organisations set up the Social Science Forum ( SSF ) to campaign on issues that were affecting social scientists . |
| 12 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 13 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 14 | Having established our respective rural development frameworks , we have now set up the cross-border steering committee , which comprises officials of the two Departments responsible for rural development . |
| 15 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 16 | However , such disadvantages could be minimized by elaborating the definition of extreme emotional disturbance so as to clarify its extent and its limitations , and by evolving sentencing guidelines which set out the major determinants of culpability . |
| 17 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 18 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 19 | We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion . |
| 20 | We set out the political context of the strike ( second section ) , before analysing the most notorious mass picket of the dispute , the ‘ Battle of Orgreave ’ . |
| 21 | All that was available to claimants was the Supplementary Benefits Handbook which set out the broad basis upon which the SBC exercised its discretion . |
| 22 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 23 | The following outline of a programme of study , reflection and action is firmly based on WACC 's ‘ Christian Principles of Communication ’ , which ‘ set out the corporate agenda for WACC ’ . |
| 24 | Sir John Campbell A.-G. set out the true position correctly , in our judgment , in his oral submissions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Manning 's Serjeant 's Case ( 1840 ) . |
| 25 | In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources . |
| 26 | We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles . |
| 27 | Note : Set out the detailed terms of engagement as agreed with the instructing clients as appropriate to the nature of the engagement . |
| 28 | These principles set out the desired aims of : |
| 29 | A Home Secretary spends many hours conscientiously reading background papers which set out the whole history of a single police officer 's alleged offences , sometimes in a bundle of papers an inch thick , in order that justice and equity may be done . |
| 30 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |