Example sentences of "that set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FUTURE of Antarctica turns on the outcome of an international conference which Michel Rocard , the French Prime Minister , opened yesterday with a speech that set the tone for what will be a fiercely political debate . |
| 2 | Inevitably , the lost that set the buyers alight were the North American and European imports , but it seems mere novelty value can no longer secure the top prices . |
| 3 | In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon . |
| 4 | In 1979 Labour was obviously in a panic — that set the mood . |
| 5 | Which presents enthusiasts of Rossi 's work with a dreadful dilemma : we want to see more and more of his photographs that set the standard for aerial work , equally we 're convinced that his sub-aqua images would be equally ravishing . |
| 6 | In one unbeatable Collection — the starts and sounds that set the whole world rocking ! |
| 7 | Brindley died in Staffordshire in 1772 , and although he did not live to see the realization of his dream , his was the unlettered genius that set the great age of canal-building in motion . |
| 8 | In fact , during 1943–44 Albert played in every outfield position at least once and he still scored goals that set the fans ' interest alight . |
| 9 | For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God . |
| 10 | This biologic fact was intricately connected with other climatic and geophysical events that set the mould for future cycles of evolution and extinction . |
| 11 | One bomb , not three , and a tearing , screaming explosion that set the lights swaying on their wires and filled the air with choking dust . |
| 12 | We 're a good mix of people that set the trends , the ‘ see and be seen ’ generation … |
| 13 | Though much of the 48-minute speech was devoted to outlining policies Labour had for Britain and the wider world , it was his attacks on Mr Major that set the Blackpool Labour Conference alight . |
| 14 | And that set the scene perfectly for Hick , a man who does n't seem to know where his next Test run is coming from , yet bats like superman in the knock-about stuff . |
| 15 | The event that set the modern Pacific on its unrelenting climb towards world dominion happened , by an entirely appropriate coincidence , to be the first ever shown clear across America , on coast-to-coast television . |
| 16 | Business Assignments is designed for the centres that set the standards in executive language training … |
| 17 | Though the Khmers Rouges signed the agreement in Paris in 1991 that set the scene for the election campaign , they have not honoured their promise to stop fighting . |
| 18 | Upstairs Downstairs , World at War , Edward VII ( in the 1970s ) ; Brideshead Revisited , Jewel in the Crown ( 1980s ) — all were ITV programmes that set the elitists purring . |
| 19 | For only on foot does one detect the subtle rise and fall of ground to which the earliest settlers were so sensitive , or alignments in the town scene that may throw light on some fundamental change of plan : or the names of streets and lanes that set the mind working at once . |
| 20 | His sleeves were rolled up — which was what led me to make such an assumption — but really it was his hair that set the tone . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly the product that set the pace was Aldus PageMaker . |
| 22 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
| 23 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 24 | ‘ And that set the pattern . |
| 25 | But clearly it was imperialistic palaeontologists rather than imperialist fossils that set the pattern in both cases . |
| 26 | It has been important to review the establishment of a binary system and some of its implications , as although the CNAA was created in 1964 , it was the binary policy and its implementation that set the seal on the CNAA 's operations for the next two decades . |
| 27 | Leroy May got the first goal … that set the fans dancing … and United went thro on penalties … it was one of their best nights of the year … |
| 28 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 29 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 30 | The computer that sets the type for this page altered ‘ privileged ’ to ‘ privileged ’ last week . |