Example sentences of "set the seal " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that , whatever sympathy one may have over Chris Patten 's defeat at Bath , it nevertheless set the seal on Central Office 's performance . |
| 2 | When Scotland played Wales at Liverpool in the dramatic World Cup qualifier , he miraculously pushed a John Toshack lob onto the bar , a save that turned the game in Scotland 's favour , and set the seal on Scotland 's trip to Argentina . |
| 3 | These leaders provided truly great contributions to the items of ‘ goodness ’ which can thus be enshrined , for not only did they themselves set the seal of ‘ good ’ , for all time , on numerous human actions , but they influenced millions of others to do likewise . |
| 4 | The tenth anniversary of the armistice , in 1928 , was marked by a cascade of anti-war literature , which set the seal on a broad pacifistic consensus that was to dominate the centre ground of British politics well into the 1930s . |
| 5 | I came here with a companion in 1954 , determined to conquer this graceful peak and thus set the seal on my mountaineering achievements but , to our shame , we shirked the last thirty yards to the summit cairn in growing apprehension of an instant demise . |
| 6 | The election of Richard , earl of Cornwall ( d. 1272 ) , Henry 's brother , as king of the Romans ( or German monarch ) in May 1257 set the seal on this new direction of Plantagenet policy . |
| 7 | 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 . |