Example sentences of "[verb] set the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Arguably , the Club has set the standards for other to follow — and very healthy it looks on them too . |
| 32 | ‘ For the ‘ thick-ear ’ has set the standard ’ , said HD ; confronted with the screen , ‘ mind in some way neatly obliterates itself ’ , argued Kenneth Macpherson , and Walter Kron identified ‘ an absence of taste , conscience , courage and character ’ . |
| 33 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 34 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Seoul , South Korea has bought Harris Corp 's Harris Microwave Semiconductor on undisclosed terms , saying it has set the stage to produce Gallium Arsenide chips to help strengthen its international competitiveness in telecommunications . |
| 35 | ‘ Although the government has set the Benefits Agency targets for the recovery of overpaid benefits , there are no targets for improving benefit take-up . |
| 36 | Peter Moores impresses more with bat and gloves every time I clap eyes on him ; Martin Speight is beginning to weld patience and big numbers to his undoubted ability and bottomless well of self-belief ; and if a fractured ankle has set the seal on Adrian Jones 's dispiriting season there has been consolation in the imposing shape of Ed Giddins . |
| 37 | A soft November swell has set the tables rattling metallically at one another across the bar . |
| 38 | God has set the seed of his Spirit in our hearts and intends to produce in us a crop of lovely qualities of character if we do not grieve the Spirit ( Eph. 4:30 ) by wilful disobedience or neglect . |
| 39 | Co-ordinator Andrew Smart has set the following schedule to the end of April : |
| 40 | has set the client server agenda for other vendors for four years , and with System Ten we hope to continue to do so . |
| 41 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 42 | More 's eloquence has set the tone for much historical writing on the subject , but while one should not deny that enclosures created a good deal of suffering , one should also remember that More was exaggerating his points for the sake of effect . |
| 43 | The Society in consultation with the Regional Representatives has set the national priorities as being : — |
| 44 | Each has set the archivist and potential historian technical , organizational , and intellectual problems of increasing complexity . |
| 45 | Middlesbrough Council has set the £353 bill based on a £21.6m budget . |
| 46 | What has set the United States ' pulse racing is a realisation that it is no longer the most prosperous of the three , but lies second to Japan ( and Europe , if ever its internal bickering stops , could easily push the US into third place ) . |
| 47 | It was uncovered by Dr Gordon Corbett , formerly of London 's Natural History Museum , and has set the world of entomology a-buzz . |
| 48 | at this point here and going right down to the final A of ANNA and the way you can , you can , cos you 're gon na step in mid way now and you assume that the appropriate sociability has set the rapport has been built and you start the role play by saying thanks very much for that , I now wan na talk about whatever your product is , yeah , and then step into role play that way ? |
| 49 | Together with designer Juliet Watkinson , however , he has set the comedy in what he says is a recognizably modern world , 1992 or ‘ it could be 1995 . |
| 50 | She said : ‘ It has set the standard throughout all the installations . |
| 51 | ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived . |
| 52 | We do n't want to set the place alight . ’ |
| 53 | Even where society relies on private agencies to monitor regulations , society will probably want to set the standards itself . |
| 54 | TEESDALE District Council agreed to set the poll tax at £242.23 compared to £169.66 last year a 42pc increase of £72.57 . |
| 55 | Officials see little need for early ‘ crisis ’ talks on the situation in Japan but believe that the G7 meeting on April 26 is almost certain to focus on the Japanese situation , with the International Monetary Fund expected to set the scene with new forecasts for the global economy . |
| 56 | The input is adjusted to set the output some standard level ( such as the rated output power ) . |
| 57 | The USSR Supreme Soviet was instructed to set the dates . |
| 58 | This interview had been granted to set the record straight . |
| 59 | The policy-making group meets to set the time-scale , to plan the introductory sessions and to agree the questions to form the basis of discussions ; some are suggested in the next section . |
| 60 | In a near-fatal aperçu , Armstrong 's comment on the civil servant 's need to be ‘ economical with the truth ’ seemed to set the seal on a growing process of encroachment on individual freedoms by a strong-minded , centralist government . |