Example sentences of "set the seal [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 2 | Six weeks after Lancaster 's execution , on 2 May 1322 , parliament assembled at York to set the seal on the royalist victory . |
| 3 | In February 1972 , Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship . |
| 4 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 5 | The Tories ' overwhelming victory in 1987 appeared to set the seal upon the triumph of bourgeois capitalism . |
| 6 | It has been important to review the establishment of a binary system and some of its implications , as although the CNAA was created in 1964 , it was the binary policy and its implementation that set the seal on the CNAA 's operations for the next two decades . |
| 7 | Her visit sets the seal on the improved relations between Britain and Malaysia , following a period of extreme coolness . |
| 8 | A 0–100mph time of 19.2secs and standing kilometre return of 28.3secs , achieved with little apparent strain and the full co-operation of a lightning-quick gearshift , set the seal on the new car 's cracking performance credentials . |
| 9 | And the central government 's socialism , it 's restriction of socialist rights to Libyan nationals , set the seal on the discrimination between foreign and national labour because it encouraged Libyan employers to employ foreigners . |
| 10 | In Booker 's eyes Profumo set the seal on the long process of British moral decline , the essence of which was a ‘ lack of respect for authority ’ in all its guises — the Establishment , the monarchy , political leaders , the Church and so on . |
| 11 | There can be no doubt that it was Ine who set the seal on the creation of the historic kingdom of Wessex and defined its horizons as a Christian realm in which monasticism and men of letters flourished amid active involvement in an overseas mission . |
| 12 | The appointment of a slave to the office of Grand Vezir in 857/1453 , however , set the seal on the tendency to man the highest offices of the central administration , the vezirliks , with slaves ; and though it was by no means unheard of for a member of the ulema thereafter to hold a vezirlik , one begins to see the development of a separate hierarchy more or less confined to members of the ulema , the highest offices in which , known as were an end in themselves and not mere stepping-stones to high office in other areas such as the central administration . |