Example sentences of "[be] setting the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 2 | They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put |
| 3 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 4 | George Hatfield , who runs the production turning course at Sydney Technical College in Australia , will again be setting the competition , and again we will be asking entrants to submit two pieces . |
| 5 | Both Slade J. and Devlin J. , respectively , feel that this would be setting the hurdle too low , and certainly Devlin J. in the Barnsley case wants the court ex post to be the yardstick by which to determine whether bias was likely to arise . |
| 6 | Rusk , who appeared to be setting the pace , had asked the Pentagon to prepare military plans as a matter of the greatest urgency ; and when NSC 64 was endorsed by the President on 24 April 1950 the US was committed , by all practical measures , to prevent the expansion of communist aggression in Southeast Asia in spite of the fact that less than a third of Vietnam was reckoned to be controlled by the legal government . |
| 7 | ‘ Guides should be setting the example and I think we should think about the way we put adventure first . ’ |
| 8 | At its next meeting , SSC would be setting the wage increase . |
| 9 | In this way you 'll be setting the pattern for 1992 . |
| 10 | Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either . |
| 11 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 12 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 13 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 14 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 15 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 16 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 17 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 18 | While the Blue Streak saga was being played out , Macmillan and McLeod had been setting the stage for Britain 's final withdrawal from Empire . |
| 19 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
| 20 | Environmental issues are setting the agenda for the future of the household cleaning and care product market in Europe , but , according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan , some manufacturers and retailers have failed to exploit this in their marketing initiatives . |
| 21 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |
| 22 | The culture of science looks for rapid and visible results , and it is this , despite occasional formal disavowals , that is setting the agenda . |
| 23 | Beyond that , he says that the rediscovery of the lessons of shamanism and the power of psychedelics is setting the scene for a general Archaic Revival , which will see a return to the magical knowledge of tribal times . |
| 24 | Erm , I would like to know who is setting the controls |
| 25 | There is no reason to suppose that care in other branches of medicine has been more thoroughly validated , so Smith is setting the GMC an impossibly large task . |
| 26 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 27 | In such a case , we would suspect that the bridle is setting the kite at too steep an angle . |
| 28 | Therefore part of the appraisal is setting the target to be competent in the job . |
| 29 | Doug felt that , as his head of department , Mary was setting the agenda of the meetings , even though she had not seen the videos he made while teaching : ‘ There may be conflict there . |
| 30 | Here the station was setting the tone for a new British self-image , one more related to the power of medieval romance than classical imperial rule . |