Example sentences of "we set a " in BNC.

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1 Why do not we set an example in Scotland , as we did for the poll tax ?
2 During the 1987 election we set a carefully timed an organised arrival at a particular airport .
3 Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ .
4 We set a course for Out Skerries in good visibility and fairly calm seas .
5 But we did n't know how it was going to go , so mentally we set a time limit on it .
6 So we set a date for it , Saturday June 29th at six in the morning .
7 I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt .
8 If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges .
9 We set a frequency rate target of 0.7 per 100,000 manhours for 1992 — in fact we achieved a rate of 0.5 which was excellent and all concerned must be congratulated for their vigilance .
10 but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things
11 What we 'd effectively do which code , what effectively do of course is we we trundle down here checking to see if any of these are set to one and if they are set to one we set a weight in memory .
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