Example sentences of "set [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I have set thee over the nations " , as the prophet Jeremiah says ( Jeremiah 1 : 10 ) and as Innocent quotes . |
| 2 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 3 | ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke . |
| 4 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 5 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 6 | Even if the arrangement within each class was a branching tree , the classes themselves could be set one above the other to form a continuous sequence . |
| 7 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 8 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 9 | I waited till he had set it by the candle . |
| 10 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 11 | The underlying improvement in operating performance and the restructuring implemented in 1992 have set us on the path to full recovery . |