Example sentences of "[vb past] set the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Secretary of State , having received judicial advice , had set the date for the first review of Mr. Pegg 's sentence in August 1993 , and thus set his tariff , in January 1989 Mr. Pegg submitted a petition to the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 3 | She laughed out loud , since it was he who had set the pace . |
| 4 | Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps . |
| 5 | Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps . |
| 6 | He had set the video up earlier in the evening while Elaine was making supper . |
| 7 | ( The East Germans had set the mark at 2.34 to the rouble , instead of 1.70 , for all COMECON trade , while the Czechoslovak move took the crown 's rate from 13 to 20 to the rouble for trade with East Germany . ) |
| 8 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 9 | Prisons had now reached a turning point and the Woolf Report into the Strangeways riots had set the scene for dramatic reform , Mr Clarke said . |
| 10 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 11 | The tasks we had set the Rottweiler have become lost and very rarely will you find a Rottweiler today herding cattle anywhere in the world , although most could still accomplish this task if required . |
| 12 | Nails , unlike Jazz and Hoomey , looked just as weedy as when they had started their training — so much so , in fact , that his puny appearance along with his new , apparent docility had set the school 's pastoral care department into action . |
| 13 | Grimm , however , had set the drumstick aside after a single bite . |
| 14 | Canadian veteran Grant Connell had set the stage for Nestor in more ways than one . |
| 15 | The courts had set the sum he should pay for his child by his first marriage at seventeen pounds fifty . |
| 16 | Now Alvar Fañez Minaya had set the host in order and while the Bishop Don Hieronymo and Gil Diaz led away the body of the Cid , and Doña Ximena , and the baggage , he fell upon the Moors . |
| 17 | He had set the pattern for the modern missionary movement but his own assessment of himself was typically modest : ‘ I can plod . |
| 18 | Henry III had set the pattern by endowing the future Edward I with Gascony in 1254 . |
| 19 | He had set the pattern for a major biographical achievement but he died prematurely . |
| 20 | William Booth and his wife , Catherine , had set the pattern . |
| 21 | At the beginning of March his council announced that they had set the charge at £400 . |
| 22 | Or , if an old inhabitant , and you had to consider this , although he hated to think of Mouncy Street and Decimus Street and Paradise Street in this connection , then some twist , some accident , some encounter had set the killer off . |
| 23 | He had set the brake on the reel at two hundred kilos , leaving a hundred as insurance against the line parting . |
| 24 | If you had set the pitch of the blades using a pitch gauge this will , of course , upset your careful adjustments . |
| 25 | Dudek 's ‘ knighting ’ him , and Layton and Scott 's friendship , had set the seal on his gift ; his two prizes ( the Macnaughton and the Peterson ) had confirmed it . |
| 26 | The offer of a free suit to Pevrolensky clinched the deal , and a shared vodka had set the seal on their minor piece of blat . |
| 27 | Firstly , it was difficult to ensure that teachers would act as anticipated by those who had set the project objectives — changes were not internalized by teachers and made routine in their classrooms ( Richards , 1983 ; Slater , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |
| 29 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 30 | Moon had set the target early in the day . |