Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 2 | The waiter set down the glasses , saying , ‘ It should be entirely forbidden . ’ |
| 3 | Well I have to admit , with our group , the first ten minutes or was a little bit disorganised because I felt we , I came in , we set down the objects , I felt we did that well , and we were clear of the timescale from the very beginning . |
| 4 | Lucinda set down the cups , then , unbuttoning her jacket , sat down at the table , chin on hands . |
| 5 | But his smile froze as Tristan appeared and set down the tureens before him . |
| 6 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |
| 7 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 8 | The wretched towns of lower Aragon , detested by liberal soldiers , became strongholds of Carlism and it was the desolation of decaying artisan towns that set off the polemics on the effectiveness of ecclesiastical charity . |
| 9 | The old pals reunion at White Hart Lane … that 's Spurs v Swindon finished as it started all square … former Town favourite David Kerslake set up the Spurs goal for Jason Dozzell … and then another old County Ground hero Colin Calderwood went and gave away a penalty … it looked like a handball at first but Calderwood was guilty of pushing … |
| 10 | They then look at that figure , break it down into separate realistic amounts achievable in various ways and set up the systems that are going to raise that cash . |
| 11 | And of course , as I 'm the Editor and set up the rules for these features , I can cheat a little bit over costs … |
| 12 | The corporation set up the networks itself , negotiating for lines with the local suppliers : BT and Mercury in the UK , HKTel in Hong Kong and , in the US , about 10 vendors offering overseas circuits . |
| 13 | What changes in the 1970s set up the forces , working through the world market and multinational corporation networks , to generate a new international division of labour ? |
| 14 | For each option you can allocate a small help comment that you view by pressing the ‘ ? ’ key , and set up the commands to load a program . |
| 15 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 16 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 17 | Leroy Burrell , whose storming second leg set up the Yanks for their 37.40 seconds power show in the relay , commented : ‘ Carl is in better shape than anybody who came to Barcelona . |
| 18 | He should know : he set up the police unit which , fictionalised , rushes around the small screen under the name ’ Miami Vice ’ . |
| 19 | When creating a database you start in the SHEET environment and set up the fields you require , specifying their length and type — which can be label , number , date , time or computed ( in which case you +:F7 do not enter data but let Symphony calculate it on the basis of a formula . |
| 20 | Brandon L.J. , at p. 287E , set out the matters which seemed to him ‘ to give rise to an equity in favour of the defendants … |
| 21 | I set out the views of the membership below . |
| 22 | The latter set out the conditions under which Croatia would be prepared to participate in a remodelled Yugoslavia based on an association of those sovereign states . |
| 23 | Paragraph 2 sets out the permissible exclusions from investigation , and paragraphs 3 to 5 set out the functions of the adjudicator . |
| 24 | He watched carefully as Rory set out the papers . |
| 25 | Here we meet a central theme : ca n't we demand that the doctor set out the principles on which he acts for all to see ? |
| 26 | Disclosure is only one of the areas dealt with in the regulations ; they also set out the principles and rules to be followed in preparing building societies ' accounts . |
| 27 | In The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( No. 2 ) , 26 November 1991 the European Court of Human Rights , following its decision in Lingens ( 1986 ) 8 E.H.R.R. 407 , set out the principles enshrined in article 10 : |
| 28 | Despite the acceptance of this principle the Commission found that a large number of people were not obtaining adequate legal services and set out the principles that should , in future , govern the provision of legal services : |
| 29 | Explain the effect of index positioning on file performance and set out the rules for positioning in various circumstances . |
| 30 | To an extent some such tension is inherent to the advocacy role : ‘ advocates ’ volunteer to get to know individuals using the service , set out the options for them and negotiate on their behalf with service providers . |