Example sentences of "set [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is our task , as Liberal Democrats , to set our sails to the new winds which will blow through the nineties ; to establish the new frontier between individual choice and collective responsibility . ’ |
| 2 | Now I could set my sights on the European Championships in Stuttgart . |
| 3 | Bartram then told Miller about his method of collecting specimens of pines ; when they are in flower and the young cone just impregnated , and asked whether European pines set their cones on the same spring 's shoot , ‘ or the second year 's wood , as by your draught , the Scotch Pine doth ? ’ |
| 4 | Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane . |
| 5 | Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane . |
| 6 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 7 | The sickening way in which Achilles sets his Myrmidons on the unarmed Hector , and then tells them to ‘ cry you all amain , ‘ Achilles has the might Hector slain ’ ’ shows that the morality of the Greeks is equally detestable . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH Ville de Paris and Nippon have been eliminated after the final races of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals , they are both already setting their sights on the 1995 Cup . |
| 9 | Setting his sights on the lucrative prizes up for grabs in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines sponsored event is classy Kenyan Jimmy Muindi , the current World Junior steeplechase champion . |
| 10 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 11 | In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s . |
| 12 | The Reform Committee set its sights on the quarterly meeting later that month . |
| 13 | She set her things round the monastic student bedroom . |
| 14 | Here one sees again one of de Gaulle 's favourite techniques : the establishing of an authoritative text ( like the Bayeux speech or the self-determination speech ) to stake out a position and set his interlocutors on the defensive from the outset . |