Example sentences of "setting [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually — and with some relief — we were out into open water and setting course for the other two large islands in the group , Barentsøvya and Edgeøya . |
| 2 | On Feb. 12 the Tadjik Communist Party ( CP ) headquarters was besieged by rioters who succeeded in setting part of the building on fire ; the Tadjik Supreme Soviet Presidium declared a state of emergency and a night-time curfew in Dushanbe ; and , fearing a pogrom , Armenians were reported to be fleeing the city . |
| 3 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 4 | It is a testimony to the magnificent holdings of the Centre 's Alexander Baykov Library , that much of this research could be done without setting foot outside the University Campus ( or , indeed , outside the Ashley Building ) . |
| 5 | Not even her fear of setting foot in a boat again would keep her from making the crossing to the mainland the moment the trip to Brides Haven was feasible . |
| 6 | For Coventry , the issues had become clouded even before setting foot in the Tigers lair . |
| 7 | We watch him trying to master the pure theory of swimming — he has no intention of ever setting foot in the water . |
| 8 | The surprising point that has occurred with regard to my own business is that other supposed chartered accountants have been preparing fully audited accounts without ever setting foot in the premises that they are conducting the audit for . |
| 9 | Had I not been with Matt and Tony I would n't have considered setting foot inside the level . |
| 10 | So what I would like to suggest , on this , on this one occasion only , and without any , setting precedents for the future either at this congress or future congresses , that we make an exception , and that in this particular deb debate we take additional speakers . |
| 11 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 12 | Class of Year Three children The " Keeper " is a guard who has been blinded to stop him ever setting eyes on the magic jewels . |
| 13 | She had been determined to avoid Vitor setting eyes on the child , but now — |
| 14 | I mean , if somebody was petrified of setting eyes on the youth again , then it would n't do them much good , for him to be sent to make good what damage he 's done to their house , or , |
| 15 | He had also tried setting traps around the shelves . |
| 16 | This was a formal process which focused on staff development by setting goals for the coming year . |
| 17 | The inquest jury returned verdicts of unlawful killing and one of suicide also challenged in the case of Trevor Carrington , 38 , the party guest said to have confessed to setting light to a sofa and starting the blaze . |
| 18 | But the Rector , the Rev William Mompesson , stood firm and declared a kind of quarantine , setting bounds round the parish beyond which no-one was supposed to pass . |
| 19 | If the deceleration delay is greater than the acceleration delay , deceleration can be initiated by setting POINTER to the appropriate location ( DECEND -COUNT ) in the deceleration table . |
| 20 | For example , we would tax fuel according to emission rates and establish systems of tradable emission licenses for industry , setting ceilings on the permitted emissions , eg sulphur dioxide . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the government continued setting targets for a reduction in PSBR . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 23 | To achieve this they pursued tight monetary policies which in many cases involved setting targets for the growth in money supply . |
| 24 | As well as setting targets for the growth of money supply , it also gave targets for the PSBR as a percentage of GDP . |
| 25 | This involves setting targets for the growth of the money supply : the approach adopted in the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy of the early 1980s that we looked at in Chapter 17 . |
| 26 | Most processes require AVAIL , but if you wish to prevent inadvertent use of a process , setting UNAVAIL in the configuration file will ensure that no action requests will be accepted by the process , at least until a LIFESPAN user with MANAGER privilege has used Option 7.5.0 to set Facilities Available . |
| 27 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 28 | If one follows through the possible implications of this , one comes to the thought that perhaps language should be presented , to learners primarily in lexical terms , setting conditions for the gradual emergence of syntax as a focusing device — the very converse of conventional practice . |
| 29 | So why has WHO headquarters , which is funded by member states to give advice on setting health policy , used its limited resources to organise a meeting for setting policy on a controversial technology , and invited as participants , with one exception , people whose only qualification is that they develop and provide that same technology ? |
| 30 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |