Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things |
| 2 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 3 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Mr Paddy Ashdown , called last week 's repatriation operation a ‘ three o ’ clock knock ’ , and warned that it set an ‘ appalling example ’ to China , which would be responsible for the safekeeping of British subjects in the colony from 1997 . |
| 5 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |