Example sentences of "[noun] and setting the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first — after some centuries of script-writing and setting the scene — began in June 1991 with a ten-day war in Slovenia . |
| 2 | If the person sorting out complaints for consumers is also the person regulating the industry and setting the prices , he is in a much stronger position . |
| 3 | Fed up with male drunkenness , local women held anti-booze demonstrations , then stormed bars and shops that sell arrack — a fiery spirit , popular in India — breaking bottles and setting the stuff ablaze . |
| 4 | J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) . |
| 5 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 6 | Thus the 1980s are seen as marked by the wholesale adoption of new technology replacing the legacy of the past and setting the terms of a future long boom . |
| 7 | Auto-exposure controls work by taking an average reading of the brightness of the subject and setting the exposure to suit this average . |
| 8 | Pre-take-off checks include the selection of fifteen degrees of flap and setting the tailwheel lock . |
| 9 | In the March 1 fighting Aoun 's troops attacked LF positions in the Ashrafieh and Nabaa districts , capturing two streets and setting the Dora commercial district ablaze . |