Example sentences of "[verb] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the VSX4 test suite already announced and starting to ship , X/Open Co is preparing to go public on XPG4 itself , and has set early October as the time when it will spill the beans . |
| 2 | In order to do this successfully we have to avoid two snares that our Enemy has set modern Christians . |
| 3 | John Pople has set new standards for quantum mechanics , theoretical chemists , and for the general chemistry community . |
| 4 | Last week 's government circular on the reforms was the third in the past year , and each one has set new priorities for staff . |
| 5 | Courtaulds Engineering has maintained its accident-free record since and has set new health and safety targets in the drive to match best international standards . |
| 6 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide has set ambitious business targets and knows that every employee can make a major contribution . |
| 7 | In general Mrs Bottomley has set clear boundaries and timetables for the decisions and told the relevant authorities to work out their own salvation within them . |
| 8 | The government has set stringent targets ; incineration , even to produce electricity , does not count towards them . |
| 9 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 10 | THERE have been few moments , if any , in the century-long history of Sheffield football rivalry when a goal by a Wednesday player has set United followers dancing with delight . |
| 11 | The committee charged with looking into the habits of the EBRD , which last year spent more on itself than on helping ex-communist countries , has set strict standards for the inquiry . |
| 12 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 13 | In Ramsay Street the transformation would have set title-tattling tongues working overtime for months . |
| 14 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 15 | The 1990 draft budget tabled in November 1989 had set total expenditure at dollars 3,899 million , compared with dollars 3,500 million in the 1989 budget , an increase of 11.4 per cent . |
| 16 | Averting her eyes , and mentally swatting the butterflies her own erotic thoughts had set fluttering , Luce gazed around with interest while Michele named some of the more important buildings lining the canal 's banks . |
| 17 | Organization was the key to successful and rapid mobilization , and the Prussian army had set new standards for all armies by its performances against Austria and France . |
| 18 | Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about . |
| 19 | — She tried to shut them out but it was as if one memory had set free another : they came clamouring now to torment and bewilder her . |
| 20 | The ambiguities and divisions were clear during the euphemistically termed ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign ( jingshen wuran yundong ) of 1983 , when the party elders attempted to keep out the ‘ flies ’ they had set free in Chinese society . |
| 21 | He had set double guards to prevent any such attempt . |
| 22 | Customs chiefs have set new suggested guideline totals of 10 litres of spirits , 90 litres of wine , 110 litres of beer , 200 cigars and 800 cigarettes . |
| 23 | Customs have set new guidelines and anyone bringing in more will be asked to confirm that their goods are not for reselling . |
| 24 | While their old firm rivals Rangers , have set new standards of footballing and business excellence , Celtic have been starved of success , amassing debts of almost five million pounds . |
| 25 | Cancelling the command leaves page breaks you have set intact |
| 26 | A number of authors ( Akerlof and Yellen , 1985 ; Mankiw , 1985a ; Parkin , 1986 ) have argued that if firms have set optimum prices , a small change in the optimum may not persuade firms to change their price as the gain in profit is marginal . |
| 27 | By contrast , Rhone Poulenc and Molycorp have set great store on producing consistent levels of purity . |
| 28 | They have set great store by congregational singing , preferably with organ accompaniment , and donated these instruments to schools and other institutions . |
| 29 | In contrast , most countries , including England , have set universal targets which run the risk of masking important health differentials . |
| 30 | The Association has been given to understand that successive Chancellors have set different rates of tax for the different categories of alcoholic drink in order to preserve flexibility to respond to changing market circumstances . |