Example sentences of "set the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEESDALE District Council agreed to set the poll tax at £242.23 compared to £169.66 last year a 42pc increase of £72.57 . |
| 2 | Finally the wool is removed , rinsed in water with salt added to set the dye , and dried in the sun . |
| 3 | His arrival seemed to set the conveyor belt in motion , and she lost all track of time as she dealt with one actor after another , flinching every time the door opened , yet aware of a peculiar emptiness when Dane failed to show up . |
| 4 | Failing to set the handbrake is sometimes detected when it is too late i.e. when a vehicle has been parked unattended and has then begun to move and run away downhill , perhaps resulting in an accident . |
| 5 | A person failing to set the handbrake can also be reported for leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position contrary to section 22 Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 6 | She says she does n't really want to earn money from the revelations but simply wants to set the story of the Yorks ' marriage straight . |
| 7 | And to try to set the blame on Hector ! ’ |
| 8 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 9 | You can work out the column width by multiplying the point size you want to use by two or the lowercase alphabet length by 1.5 to give the number of picas to set the text across . |
| 10 | Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the . |
| 11 | I 'd like to set the hairdresser on fire who did my mum 's hair , it looks hideous . |
| 12 | GMAG ( pronounced ‘ Geemag ’ ) and the HSE between them help to set the level of containment necessary , and give advice on how to design a safe process . |
| 13 | In both Britain and Spain the minister has statutory powers to approve budgets , plans and investment programmes , annual reports and accounts , overall price increases , and rail closures ; to set the level of state support for the railways ; and to make or confirm appointments to the board , including the chairman . |
| 14 | Under the terms of the 1988 Education Reform Act , the LEAs will continue ( subject to such constraints as charge capping ) to set the overall , authority-wide budget for schools under their control ( known as the ‘ general schools budget ’ ) . |
| 15 | There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time . |
| 16 | Commissioning the Royal Philharmonic is likely to set the cat among the pigeons . |
| 17 | Around the same time , he acted to set the procedure of constitutional reform in motion . |
| 18 | The input is adjusted to set the output some standard level ( such as the rated output power ) . |
| 19 | Matteo Fargion 's specially composed music for piano , strings and brass does much to set the tone of the piece , with its clouded dissonances and flurries of bright jazzy melody . |
| 20 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 21 | A hundred chairs ‘ disappeared ’ , the rows became a little more spacious , aisles were one seat wider , space was left for photographers — and the press conference was packed , creating the vital ‘ success ’ atmosphere to set the tone to launch an important strategic project . |
| 22 | Four days earlier the Sun had also helped to set the tone with a centre-spread report , ‘ HUMAN TIDE LABOUR WOULD LET IN — Bogus refugees will grab state handouts ’ , complete with coloured maps representing the locations of intending immigrants to Britain from Africa , Asia , eastern Europe and the Middle East . |
| 23 | Each unit is prefaced by an apposite quotation , or ‘ pointer ’ , to set the tone and get the student thinking . |
| 24 | My idea was partly to make sure of a good time , as I have always had there , and partly to set the tone for my future articles . |
| 25 | They seem to set the tone . ’ |
| 26 | Now , Mr Major wants his Bonn speech to set the tone of future relations with Europe . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're probably going to set the taxpayer back a couple of million , unless these things are made of plate steel . ’ |
| 28 | Furthermore , enough insight has been achieved in mapping their respective domains to allow us henceforth to set the problem of demarcation to one side . |
| 29 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 30 | I 've got to set the video again . |