"set" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

set verbo

set + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 262
set standards • set fire • set foot • set goals • set limits • set priorities • set sail • set guidelines • set rules • set targets • set prices • ...
verbo + set
Kolokacji: 54
help set • help set up • try to set • begin to set • want to set • ...
(1) help, try, begin, go, use, ...
Kolokacji: 26
1. allow to set = pozwól umieścić allow to set
2. include setting = obejmuj umieszczanie include setting
3. avoid setting = uniknij umieszczania avoid setting
4. consider setting = zastanów się nad umieszczaniem consider setting
5. admit setting = przyznaj się/przyznawać się do umieszczania admit setting
6. favor setting = ustawienie przysługi favor setting
  • Mrs. Clinton said she favored setting high standards, and assured her that the extra work would pay off.
  • In the case of Social Security, the President and the Republicans favor setting aside much of the budget surplus over the next 15 years to strengthen the retirement system.
  • Going even further, Professor Borjas favors setting the threshold so that the number of immigrants entering the United States falls from about 900,000 to about 500,000 a year.
  • Still, tradition favored setting sail with Durga tide.
  • Mr. Gorbachev answered "yes" when asked if he favored setting fixed terms in office for top Communist officials, including himself.
  • He responded with "Never did," and said he favors setting a time limit on the campaign.
  • As of 2006, opinion on what the U.S. should do in Iraq is split, with a slight majority generally favoring setting a timetable for withdrawal, but against withdrawing immediately.
  • A clear majority - 58 percent - favored setting time limits, and an additional 9 percent wanted all financing blocked.
  • McNair would likely say that I favored setting a fire to burn out vermin, even though the fire risked eliminating the whole forest.
  • But he said he did not favor setting a specific figure at which pollution controls would be required.
(4) seem, appear
Kolokacji: 2
(5) decide, enable, reduce
Kolokacji: 5
(6) score, hit
Kolokacji: 2
set + preposición
Kolokacji: 126
set up • set out • set off • set down • set back • ...
set + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 124
set aside • set forth • originally set • set apart • set free • set high • immediately set • initially set • set earlier • later set • ...

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