Example sentences of "[vb mod] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 2 | They set a time , however , within which the coheir should set to construction , and after which they wished Procula alone to construct , imputing costs to her coheir for his share . |
| 3 | The other rabbit evidently had no fear that they might set upon him , hrair to one , and kill him . |
| 4 | We 'll set larger , we 'll set in eighteen point , I mean you can say something about — not an abstract , because they did n't want to be academic . |
| 5 | The military importance of the islands in safeguarding the Soviet fleet 's access to the Pacific , together with the potentially rich fishing rights , the past Soviet stance on the issue , and the precedent which it could set for those wishing to revise the Soviet Union 's post-1945 boundaries , were all cited as reasons for the Soviet government 's reluctance to surrender the territory . |
| 6 | The decision on prejudice is presumably at the discretion of police and tax officers ; if widely exercised it could set at naught some of the principal objects of the Act . |
| 7 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 8 | All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success . |
| 9 | She had also made one or two favourable remarks on the occasions she 'd seen him working out , and had assured him that , once he 'd attained the standards she 'd set for him , he could look forward to being given a fairly prominent role in the next major presentation . |
| 10 | ‘ It is , ’ she agreed , then bit her lip , only seeing the trap he 'd set for her when she 'd already tumbled straight into it . |
| 11 | Each morning you 'd set on your round . |
| 12 | We 'd set on living together , and seeing how it worked out , with or without the baby . |
| 13 | So — unless you want baked beans ( and I know I do n't ) let's set to work . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In short , the contradictions between GCSE and Records of Achievement hinges on the question of whether the priority for 16+ assessment should be the provision of reliable information which has high predictability for the purpose of selection or whether the primary purpose should be to reflect what has been achieved in relation to the whole range of goals that a school may set for itself . |
| 15 | In short , the contradiction between GCSE and records of achievement hinges on the question of whether the priority for 16+ assessment should be the provision of reliable information which has high predictability for the purposes of selection , or whether the primary purpose should be to reflect what has been achieved in relation to the whole range of educational goals that a school may set for itself . |
| 16 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 17 | He hanked the head of the spinnaker to the spare forehalyard so that the sail would set outside the jib . |
| 18 | Archbishop William Temple when headmaster of Repton had a complete mental recall of Bradshaw and would set as an imposition for an errant boy the best way of travelling from Great Yarmouth to Exeter or Penrith to Ipswich without touching London , complete with changes and times . |
| 19 | Men would set to , cleaning and polishing , burnishing brass , copper and silver . |
| 20 | I do know that at Low Birk Hatt , after finishing working in the fields all day , he would set to joinering at night , and made several of the doors and gates . |
| 21 | And he would set to work to cover reams of paper with still lifes , boats , fishermen , figures , birds and clouds , completing a sixty-foot decoration in one day . |
| 22 | Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale . |
| 23 | The Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , said the new green bill would set in place the most sophisticated and comprehensive pollution control regulations anywhere . |
| 24 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 25 | Yeah , you got a smoke machine we , we , we would set in little , in a hole in the back . |
| 26 | There 'd been a decade of de-skilling said Mr Kinnock , but Labour would set in motion a national training strategy . |
| 27 | A number of plums , including the varieties ‘ Czar ’ , ‘ Victoria ’ and most gages and damsons , will set on their own , as do most acid cherries , but ‘ Stella ’ and ‘ Cherokee ’ are the only self-fertile sweet cherries at the moment . |
| 28 | ‘ In the church of S. Andrea della Valle , the exterior of which has already been restored , we will set to work on Mattia Preti 's grandiose but much-damaged frescoes and in Santa Maria della Pace we will restore Raphael 's Chigi Chapel , also in a poor state of preservation ’ . |
| 29 | Initially , we will set for all i and j , assume all lines are available and take the current line to be row l . |
| 30 | The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 . |