Example sentences of "set [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , the rule-makers can set their faces against the pressures for change . |
| 2 | When functionalists attempt to explain systems of social stratification , they set their explanations in the framework of larger theories which seek to explain the operation of society as a whole . |
| 3 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 4 | John Alexander helps you set your eyes on the right |
| 5 | Imagine that firms have set their prices at the end of period 0 to give a price level of P in periods 1 and 2 . |
| 6 | Once they had set their feet on the path they tumbled down bold and bouncy as puppies . |
| 7 | We are setting ourselves targets for the time we take to make decisions on papers submitted to us and then to publish the papers . |
| 8 | At this stage , while setting your goals for the whole dieting period , use another graph to plot out your weight at the end of each month . |
| 9 | Having set our investment in bricks and mortar , we 're now setting our sights on the future . |
| 10 | I 'd like to meet the chap as set them tombstones round the wall . |
| 11 | They left the Rorim and set their faces towards the hills . |
| 12 | Notice that workers who set their wages at the end of even periods believed , in the even period t - 1 , that the price level in odd period t would remain unchanged in period t + 1 . |
| 13 | Similarly , we assume that workers who set their wages at the end of odd periods believed , in the odd period t - 2 , that the price level would be the same in periods t - 1 and t . |
| 14 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 15 | After sailing through her Bronze and Silver Awards , Fiona set her sights on the Gold . |
| 16 | She set her sights on the city and pushed herself painfully on . |
| 17 | He lightly set his feet on the stone buttocks and sprang across , and , seized by some eccentric whim in mid air , raised his black p.v.c. arms and flapped them , cawing like a crow . |
| 18 | He set his hands to the chair arms , as if about to rise . |