Example sentences of "sets the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bear in mind the way each technique sets the body up in a different way . |
| 2 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |
| 3 | The fee for burial does not include charges for grave-digging , which may be carried out by a parochial officer ( in which case the vicar sets the charge ) , or by a grave-digger hired by the funeral director . |
| 4 | A ballet fur the stage must have an overall rhythm which sets the atmosphere , quality , mood and possibly the emotional content of the whole . |
| 5 | This music also firmly sets the location and period of the tale . |
| 6 | With both the motive for the murder and the brave rescue Crime and Punishment sets the pattern for later Dostoevsky ; his post-Siberian notebooks swarm with admonitions like ‘ Decide the matter definitely one way or the other ’ , and with the X marks the spot of ‘ Here a podvig is achieved ’ ; and in the other novels , as in Crime and Punishment , the actual outcome of such promptings makes an interesting study . |
| 7 | This dopant layer sets the voltage at which the transistor turns off and on . |
| 8 | Resistor R3 matches the output to IC2 and , together with R4 , sets the gain of the circuit , which is 0dB overall when circuit losses are taken into account , Components C1 and R1 form a high-pass filter , rolling off at 3.4Hz or 340Hz , depending on which value is used . |
| 9 | One can invoke , too , Ricks 's insistence that the language of the agenda sets the terms of the debate : to speak of ‘ principles ’ and ‘ faith ’ is to offer an alternative discourse to the invocation of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 10 | The Bar Conference : Donaldson sets the tone for battle over rights of audience |
| 11 | Prokofiev , in the final piece of the evening , showed what to do with that kind of thing : his Overture on Hebrew themes , written in 1919 for a group pretending to raise funds for a conservatory in Jerusalem but in fact trying to feed themselves , just sets the tunes in a concise sonata form , and preserves all their humour and charm with hardly a suspicion of the composer intruding . |
| 12 | The much-thumbed book is deeply moving , and sets the tone for a walk round this glorious building , which has seen the christenings , marriages and burials of the folk of the village for more than 600 years . |
| 13 | Her visit sets the seal on the improved relations between Britain and Malaysia , following a period of extreme coolness . |
| 14 | That sets the tone for what follows , as blunder is piled on blunder . |
| 15 | The contract rate sets the maximum interest rate payable on an exposure . |
| 16 | COMMENT the editor sets the world to rights |
| 17 | But although the sensationally styled Calibra sets the trend , it is by no means the only exponent of the field . |
| 18 | That sets the little boats rocking like crazy , like there 's a sudden storm or summat . |
| 19 | The Department of Transport confirmed last night that Mr Reid had made no input into BR 's new corporate plan which sets the blueprint and financial structure of the railways for the next three years , which is expected to show further cuts in government support . |
| 20 | FIVE years of debate culminated yesterday in a bill which sets the scene for the most dramatic transformation of British broadcasting since the launch of ITV in 1955 , writes Georgina Henry , Media Correspondent . |
| 21 | Five years of debate has culminated in a bill which sets the scene for the most dramatic transformation of British broadcasting since the launch of ITV in 1955 . |
| 22 | Five years of debate has culminated in a bill which sets the scene for the most dramatic transformation of British broadcasting since the launch of ITV in 1955 . |
| 23 | Sheppard sets the night alight John Fordham on the UK Jazz Awards at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 24 | He sets the scene , intervenes , sums up . |
| 25 | The Geneva Convention of 1949 sets the rules on treatment of ‘ victims ’ of war . |
| 26 | Everything else is without importance from the Creator 's point of view , and is only a play of permutations and combinations within a general program which is not a prophetic anticipation of the future but merely sets the limits of possibilities within which all power of decision has been left to chance . |
| 27 | It must be said that Cardus 's review expressed the reservation that there was , perhaps , some sameness of carriage and accent in each of the three performances , whether it was the First Symphony , the Seventh , or the Apollonian Fourth ( a reading Karajan later modified ) ; but his review characteristically paints a picture , sets the scene for the absent reader : |
| 28 | ‘ A day without an argument is like an egg without salt ’ : that fighting sentence from the introduction sets the tone . |
| 29 | A horrid jingle sets the tone . |
| 30 | What sets the Masters and Augusta apart is the psychology of the tournament and the course . |