Example sentences of "he set a " in BNC.

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1 Will he set an example by persuading the Prime Minister to do something about the membership of the Cabinet ?
2 However , since Stamp Duty has already been removed from share dealing , why has he set a moratorium on house purchase ?
3 Against this first idea of culture he sets a second definition at once wider and ‘ more fundamental ’ .
4 He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside .
5 Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with .
6 Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies .
7 In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view .
8 As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record .
9 In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's .
10 Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare .
11 For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt.
12 He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off .
13 BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them .
14 Fürst Franz-Anton Thun-Hohenstein spoke first in Czech and then repeated in German : ‘ When President Hawel asked forgiveness for the driving out or resettling of most of the German-speaking population of Czechoslovakia , he set a high standard .
15 In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose .
16 But he set a date , put an Assistant Manager in charge and after a small conflab set the number at 50 .
17 ENGLAND 's Mark Foster wrote his name in the record books for the second successive day when he set a European short-course 50 metres freestyle record at a World Cup meeting in Gelsenkirchen , Germany , yesterday .
18 He set a hand to his belt , and drew the hilt of his dagger forward with a gesture there was no mistaking .
19 Looks of surprise were exchanged all round them as he set an arm round Lachlan 's shoulders that stiffened and then relaxed ; and then the cheering erupted .
20 DENIS COMPTON 's vintage year was 1947 when he set an all-time record of 3,816 runs in first-class cricket — a total never likely to be surpassed .
21 In Scotland in particular there is a coterie of men and women working on VAT for whom he set an example to be followed .
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