Example sentences of "set [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 2 | But if it were pigeon droppings then it would be a moot point as to whether merely to murmur condolences and hurry on or to set to work with a clean handkerchief . |
| 3 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 4 | THE United States yesterday cancelled talks set for Monday with the European Community over a public procurement dispute and said sanctions were now hard to avoid . |
| 5 | Studies will deal with various mountain regions and Romanian experience will set against trends in the Carpathian regions of other Eastern European countries . |
| 6 | Set in Australia in the 1950s , The Delinquents celebrates the passionate love story of Lola Lovell , played by Kylie and Brownie Hansen , played by Charlie Schlatter . |
| 7 | Set in front of a light background , these more dominating colours are not only vibrant , but suggest space and distance behind . |
| 8 | Minton took him upstairs to his studio , where his portrait of Nevile Wallis was in progress , and set to work on a small canvas . |
| 9 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 10 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 11 | Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created . |
| 12 | The scene was set for progress towards a modern network . |
| 13 | There is no target date set for completion of the new project . |
| 14 | On July 24 dates were set for elections to a unicameral National Assembly , in what would be Lebanon 's first general election since 1972 . |
| 15 | These become even stronger when combined and set against clothing from an opposing standpoint . |
| 16 | Manzoni was born , in 1785 , near Lake Como and The Betrothed is set near Lecco on the eastern arm of that lake . |
| 17 | A badger protection group says it fears that savage dogs are being set upon badgers in a remote area . |
| 18 | Therefore , the relative prices of index futures appear to be set in accordance with the no-arbitrage condition , adjusted for transaction costs . |
| 19 | A house for Mr Biswas is an engaging comic novel set in Trinidad about a poor man who marries into a large extended family from whom he struggles to escape . |
| 20 | It is set in England in the twenty-first century . |
| 21 | It surpasses BPX 's old record , set in July for the A-24 well , which extended 2,500 feet . |
| 22 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 23 | It is hoped that a full scale project will be set in motion at a later date but , because it is primarily operational in nature and the expert system is only a part , it is now being sponsored by the Operations Branches . |
| 24 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 25 | It should be emphasized that this policy initiative was part of much broader policy changes in the city , set in motion by a new Labour leadership elected in May 1980 . |
| 26 | s This sudden explosion of the public into the private domain after 1914 , the inevitable result of profound structural changes in French society set in motion in the late nineteenth century , not only exploded the myth of an unchanging , clearly delineated set of social actors operating in a stable social environment , but also undermined the credibility of any attempt to separate the social from the psychological in the portrayal of individual characters . |
| 27 | As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price . |
| 28 | Also standardisation of interpretation can be ensured if objectives have been set in terms of a specific number of faults . |
| 29 | And that obviously creates the uplift in land values which finances the social structure that would be set in terms of the operational criteria for the new settlement . |
| 30 | JustText 's typographic control is excellent but currently type can only be set in increments of a single point and leading control is similarly limited . |