Example sentences of "[conj] setting [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 2 | ( i.e. From looking at the distribution it is possible to determine that setting a threshold score of 88 ( say ) would remove 30% of the target words from the lattice giving a lattice quality of Q70 ) |
| 3 | By determining a local council 's grant income from the centre and setting a ceiling to a local council 's revenue raising , central government acquired the capacity to set a limit on any council 's spending . |
| 4 | This interest in wage regulation , standardising and setting a floor to wage costs — thereby limiting competitive wage and price-cutting — was especially prevalent in labour-intensive industries where labour costs formed a relatively high proportion of total costs . |
| 5 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 6 | The Maastricht summit ended with agreement early on Dec. 11 on a treaty framework for European union , incorporating the EPU and EMU agreements and setting a timetable for their implementation , and providing for a new security/defence dimension to EC co-operation . |
| 7 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 8 | The first — after some centuries of script-writing and setting the scene — began in June 1991 with a ten-day war in Slovenia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Auto-exposure controls work by taking an average reading of the brightness of the subject and setting the exposure to suit this average . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | and setting the cuckoo off |
| 13 | In announcing yesterday that its Automated Pit Trading system will start on 30 November , the London International Financial Futures Exchange inserted the final element in a cautious but promising strategy for intergrating electronic trading and open outcry , and setting the pace for exchange reform in London . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The tone is produced by the action of the player 's lips ( technically known as ‘ embouchure ’ ) and wind pressure operating on a small conical mouthpiece , and setting the air in the instrument in vibration . |
| 16 | To avoid delaying the progress of a study by being too concerned with defining the environment or other CATWOE elements correctly , it may be necessary to merge some real-world facts with the systems thinking , for example by considering the relationships between the group being studied and other parts of the organisation , and setting the system boundary accordingly . |
| 17 | Pre-take-off checks include the selection of fifteen degrees of flap and setting the tailwheel lock . |
| 18 | Substituting equations ( 5.11 ) and ( 5.12 ) into equation ( 5.5 ) , and setting the result identically equal to equation ( 5.6 ) , allows us to solve for the π 's and obtain the following solution for output in the th market , : |
| 19 | This method of programming applies to nearly all the functions , like effects switching , storing , manual or program mode ( like that on the ME-6 ) , and setting the onboard tuner . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 23 | Planning involves a series of action steps , such as going to bed earlier than usual and setting an alarm ( or a failsafe system incorporating two or more alarms ! ) . for more on the need for specificity see Action plans on page 1 . |
| 24 | In the 1980s , the families stepped aside in favour of Shaw , who took square old Mr Cube on an acquisitions binge , bloating its gearing levels to 230 per cent at one point , but setting the business on course to exploit the booming market for low-calorie diet foods . |
| 25 | Have a struggle with it and we 'll discuss the opening question tomorrow because setting the scene is often the way the tone of the whole . |
| 26 | Such solutions must provide proper safeguards to protect the rights and interests of patients , their families and carers , while setting the framework for the provision of adequate and appropriate care . |
| 27 | It transpired that whilst setting the Corsair 's electrically-operated rudder trim for take-off , it stuck in the full right position . |
| 28 | For Cuba , Malmierca characterized the resolution as setting a date for war and said that it violated the UN Charter . |
| 29 | In Britain , American experience is commonly cited as setting a precedent both for what can be done and for the policy strategies necessary for success . |
| 30 | The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality . |