Example sentences of "[verb] to set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE European Commission yesterday promised to set minimum prices for some fish in an attempt to placate French trawlermen who went on the rampage at Paris 's wholesale food market in a second day of anger at low prices and British imports . |
| 2 | While the Conciliation Committee fiddled , a conflagration threatened at Liverpool which promised to set all Britain 's ports alight . |
| 3 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
| 4 | I propose to set total standard spending for nineteen ninety four , ninety five at two thousand seven hundred and four point eight million pounds . |
| 5 | it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ? |
| 6 | If we are to do better in 1996 , we must avoid the trap of appearing to set one group against the other . |
| 7 | The 13-member cartel again failed to set firm quotas for individual members [ see pp. 37641 ; 37930 ; 38122 ] but agreed to raise the collective output ceiling from 22,300,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 23,650,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of 1991 . |
| 8 | Agreement had been delayed by a reluctance on the part of major oil-producing states , led by Saudi Arabia , the Soviet Union and the United States to agree to set firm targets for limiting greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew you would want to set all to rights , ’ Rose said softly , smiling warmly at her . |
| 10 | On March 18 , 1991 , EC Environment Ministers agreed to set new , stricter , anti-pollution standards for emissions from diesel-driven lorries and buses , aiming to halve emissions of carbon monoxide , nitrogen oxides , gaseous hydrocarbons and particulates . |
| 11 | Leading building societies and banks , including Halifax , Abbey National , Nationwide and NatWest , agreed to set millions of pounds to allow hard-pressed borrowers to convert their mortgages to rent . |
| 12 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 13 | The FMLN and the popular movement are already making plans and organizing to set these changes in motion . |
| 14 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |
| 15 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 16 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 17 | ‘ At Boston , for example ( an A to B course rather than an out-and-back course ) in a year when there is a strong following wind , they 're going to set phenomenal times . |
| 18 | So in , rational grounds y y you would be arguing that , that if we 're going to set this policy up we 're going to have to accept that i it 's going , it is going to be a long term policy . |
| 19 | By doing this , ‘ they have helped to set one area and one group of workers against another in the struggle to obtain a higher share of the inadequate number of jobs available . ’ |
| 20 | Kreepy Krauly USA Inc is alleged to set retail prices for its swimming-pool cleaning devices . |
| 21 | Well impeachable source but I there 's no smoke without fire and everything else I 've heard I 've got to set this table . |
| 22 | DEFB can be used to set one byte of memory to a particular value . |
| 23 | the requirement for a riskless asset which may be used to set equal lending and borrowing rates . |
| 24 | DEFW can be used to set 2 bytes of memory to a particular value . |
| 25 | Exercise : Think about someone with whom you would like to set some limits . |
| 26 | I would like to set this into context though , because over thirteen million attend accident and emergency departments annually . |
| 27 | At a meeting of EC Environment Ministers in Brussels on March 18 , 1991 , it was agreed to set tougher emission levels for carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides emitted by heavy diesel lorries and buses . |
| 28 | The EPA has received considerable criticism concerning the length of time it takes to set such emission standards . |
| 29 | ATEST case aiming to set new standards of compensation for journalists suffering from repetitive strain injury may be launched against the Financial Times . |
| 30 | It all started to set alight around the 10th and 11th . |