Example sentences of "set the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Although the government has set the Benefits Agency targets for the recovery of overpaid benefits , there are no targets for improving benefit take-up .
2 Middlesbrough Council has set the £353 bill based on a £21.6m budget .
3 Some of the councils who have set the poll tax budgets in relation to the government 's community charge is far in excess of their estimation , and you know it 's absolutely ridiculous .
4 We have therefore set the starting time at 7.15 pm .
5 Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations .
6 has set the client server agenda for other vendors for four years , and with System Ten we hope to continue to do so .
7 This year , I have set the Employment Service the task of placing 1.3 million people in jobs — 5,000 every working day — and it is achieving that target .
8 This task assumes you have already set the page size to A4 ( see Task 17 ) .
9 Tap the Down , key twice and the Right , key once each to select ( page ) width : 8.27 ″ , assuming you have already set the page size to A4 ( see Task 17 )
10 Duncan Knight , having set the target speed at 110 m.p.h. , was closely followed by Tony Marti at 105 m.p.h. , but Marcus Robinson also clocked up 105 m.p.h. so a ‘ play-off ’ was arranged .
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