Example sentences of "[vb -s] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history department has to set about devising a programme of study for Key Stage 3 which embodies all the National Curriculum requirements , plus any local or county initiatives and any school based requirements . |
| 2 | That 's the point that Hughie has set as one of his objectives for the next twelve months , is to get the group acting as one team , and not five or six separate teams . |
| 3 | It wants the Interim Advisory Committee , which will determine the profession 's pay increase for the 1990-91 year , to be allowed to remedy the error by using new money over and above the £600m limit the Government has set on the global sum available for any increase . |
| 4 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 5 | The exhibition extends outside where , for example , Geneviève Cadieux has set on top of the building an alluring photo-billboard of rouged lips , and Alan Sonfist has planted an evergreen emerging from a splayed ballistic missile . |
| 6 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 7 | Two new Ford car models , designed to meet the pollutant emission standards California has set for 1997 , are to be launched in the US . |
| 8 | Bake at 400°F ( 200°C ) gas mark 6 for 40–45 min until the topping has set to a golden crust . |
| 9 | In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says , ‘ Oh , that 's far , far too much ! |
| 10 | Once diarrhoeal disease has set in a baby will go under in just two or three days . |
| 11 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 12 | The unit in question , for what Telekom calls Systems Customers , is part of its Business Customers division , and was established as part of the thorough restructuring Telekom has set in train ; it serves 500 major companies and organisations , and its business is growing at 13% to 14% a year , against less than 5% overall growth from private customers in 1992 . |
| 13 | That has set in train a process that could , eventually , lead to sanctions against offending countries ; but that might take years , and tigers , as a species , are short of time . |
| 14 | Unisys has set in place its Colleagues developers programme , offering development and porting support to independent software vendors , plans to begin software distribution via compact disks during the second quarter , and will introduce network licensing software from Gradient Technologies Inc . |
| 15 | Fortunately the weather is mild and spring has set in which means that there will be prey about — young mammals and so on . |
| 16 | Once reality has set in the rewards are known . |
| 17 | The life you bring with you has set in motion |
| 18 | After an hour , boredom has set in : the quick learners are impatient with those who ca n't follow , while the older women mechanically repeat five or six words in succession after the others , without even looking at their books . |
| 19 | Such a cost none the less needs setting against the advantages in any ecological study of gorilla social behaviour . |
| 20 | Despite the tour results , with only two wins and two draws to set against four defeats , Sole cited the tour as a success in bringing on newcomers . |
| 21 | Such arbitrage fails to set in motion the competitive forces that normally close such openings in a market economy . |
| 22 | The Artificer commonly goes clad like the Yeoman : the Yeoman like the Gentleman : the Gentleman as the Nobleman : the Nobleman as the Prince : which bringeth great confusion , and utterly overturneth the order which God hath set in the states and conditions of men . |
| 23 | This is n't because it 's set to , but normally it 's on cords which go up to there up to that pulley wheel round and there 's a big heavy weight inside which carries the window . |
| 24 | And it 's set with one sovereign . |
| 25 | Derek the the rot 's set in mate ! |
| 26 | You know , it 's set in London . |
| 27 | It 's set in an Afrikaaner village and is the true story of a widow who is inspired to sculpt hundreds of animals and people following the death of her husband . |
| 28 | Although people sometimes think of unemployment as having lots of leisure , in fact leisure only has its real meaning when it 's set against work . |
| 29 | Er , it 's not a funding system that er that we would choose to work under , we would want to keep the rents as low as possible er , but it 's one that 's set by central government through the housing corporation and that we have to live with . |