Example sentences of "set [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If using QFE , make certain that this is set before starting the final turn . |
| 2 | Verily , these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives … somewhere . |
| 3 | REJUVENATED Ruel Fox is set upon tormenting the club of his boyhood dreams as Norwich take their amazing eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League to Old Trafford today . |
| 4 | The real war was waged against nettle and bramble — now there you really could persuade yourself that some malign force was at work , set upon reducing the whole place to a rank and thrusting wilderness , in which the weakest went to the wall . |
| 5 | When the estate 's then owner , James Tyrell , decided on a new house and gardens in 1734 , he was set upon having the latest fashion . |
| 6 | Catherine II sharply increased the number , which reached about 38,000 by the end of the century , and in the nineteenth century steady expansion set in bringing the total to some 114,000 by Nicholas I 's death . |
| 7 | Yet for all that , the charge eagerly made against us was that the Government were set on abolishing the National Health Service and ‘ privatizing ’ health care . |
| 8 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 9 | these and all his other cars became very popular , but Chapman had his heart set on entering the world of Formula One racing . |
| 10 | Thus , individuals socialised into the working classes will suffer from status frustration , and will adopt an outlook set on turning the middle-class value system on its head . |
| 11 | " You 're still set on starting the secretarial school ? " |
| 12 | Now Steve has his sights set on winning the European championships for England , being held on home territory in September . |
| 13 | GRAHAM Gooch leads England into battle at Old Trafford today with his heart set on burying the bitter memories of last winter and securing his own future beyond mid-summer . |
| 14 | Mr Hicks ' framework is well presented but much travelled by many companies , set on improving the quality of cost information based on sound and robust examples . |
| 15 | A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ . |
| 16 | As for him , his heart was still set on finding the sea-king 's palace , with its throne of silver and trumpets of pearl and the coral candles burning beneath the waves . |
| 17 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 18 | They creaked awake and set to rousing the fire and cooking breakfast , the Hearthwares cursing the chill weight of their armour , hopping up and down to get the blood moving through their limbs . |
| 19 | The rest of the company set to unsaddling the horses and building a fire . |
| 20 | The posture is set by angling the body forward from the waist and flexing the knees to keep the weight even between toes and heels . |
| 21 | In many organizations budgets are set by adjusting the budget for the previous year , adding a bit for inflation , and so on . |
| 22 | Assume the bistable is set by pressing the TRIGGER switch , S1 , Q becomes 1 and current passes to the base of the transistor , TR1 , via resistor R3 and operates buzzer , WD1 . |
| 23 | ww3.pcx Which directories will be searched can be set by pressing the Search button , and then changing the Search path msdos1.pcx Having set the prompt to show the text ‘ What now Fred ? ‘ , the next command sets it back to show the current drive and directory |