Example sentences of "[noun sg] that set the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brindley died in Staffordshire in 1772 , and although he did not live to see the realization of his dream , his was the unlettered genius that set the great age of canal-building in motion . |
| 2 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 3 | The event that set the modern Pacific on its unrelenting climb towards world dominion happened , by an entirely appropriate coincidence , to be the first ever shown clear across America , on coast-to-coast television . |
| 4 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 5 | Significantly , for Lukacs , it is precisely the material situation of the writer in relation to socialism that sets the socialist realist apart from the bourgeois critical realist . |
| 6 | But presumably there were one or two great exponents around at that time that set the whole thing off ? |