Example sentences of "[pron] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's not my style , Ian — you should realise that I set great store by not creating ‘ scenes ’ ; by not making those that I esteem suffer any unnecessary discomfort , whether it be social , physical , or otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | The health boards in Scotland are very close to the hospitals , which is why I set considerable store by the approval that had been granted to the applications by the Grampian health board in the case of Foresterhill and by the Ayrshire and Arran health board in the case of South Ayrshire . |
| 3 | Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations . |
| 4 | He was co-author of the declaration of Philadelphia of 1945 which set postwar goals for the ILO , and affirmed that economic and financial policies were to be judged by their contribution to social justice . |
| 5 | The abolition of Wages Councils , which set minimum pay rates for two and a half million low-paid workers , mainly women , was the most controversial measure . |
| 6 | Instead of the brief annual bargaining over estimates , each year 's budget would be the outcome of a longer-term planning process which set authority-wide priorities . |
| 7 | Resistance to cuts in production was fuelled by expectations of increased demand based on official OPEC estimates which set third-quarter ( September ) demand at 22,810,000 bpd , rising to 23,710,000 bpd in the fourth quarter ( December ) . |
| 8 | Sandiford on May 2 , 1990 , presented a budget for 1990/1991 which set recurrent expenditure at B$1,000 million and capital expenditure at B$243 million [ see p. 37821 ] . |
| 9 | And Mr Major has confirmed that wages councils , which set basic pay rates for 2.5 million low paid workers , are to be abolished . |
| 10 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 11 | One who set great store by Miller was young Lord Petre ( 1713–42 ) whose plants Miller managed at Ingatestone in Essex . |
| 12 | Sir Thomas , who set great store on his cultural activities , ’ trying to keep the sarcasm from her voice , ‘ considered he would be the best chairman for such an important event . ’ |
| 13 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 14 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 15 | Morley , Weelkes , and Wilbye were the outstanding figures of the English madrigal school , but some fine things were also written by Bateson , Benet , Michael East , Kirbye , Francis Pilkington , Ward , and others — to say nothing of the Catholic exile , Peter Philips , who set Italian verse . |
| 16 | Holmes , who set British League appearance records as a competitor with Liverpool Harriers , is currently very active promotion and developing multievents in the North West . |
| 17 | If you set unobtainable objectives you will be seen to have failed even if you do a wonderful job . |
| 18 | If you set over-ambitious targets ( " I 'm going to finish this assignment tonight — even if it kills me ! " ) and fail to achieve them , you simply reinforce your sense of guilt and failure . |
| 19 | If you set unattainable goals , you 'll only become extremely frustrated with your running and racing . |
| 20 | One explanation is that Uganda 's two most prominent leaders in the recent past were Idi Amin and Milton Obote , both of whom set worldwide standards for venality and corruption . |
| 21 | Referring to Section 6.2 it is clear that the required transformation can be achieved if we set equal to the value of at y . |
| 22 | Like our parents , we set high goals for ourselves . |
| 23 | The former were patient , they set small goals they could meet , stuck to their personally-devised diet plans and took regular exercise . |
| 24 | They set broad direction while allowing their views to be influenced by the experience so gained . |
| 25 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |