Example sentences of "set the [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God . |
| 32 | After the Secretary of State , having received judicial advice , had set the date for the first review of Mr. Pegg 's sentence in August 1993 , and thus set his tariff , in January 1989 Mr. Pegg submitted a petition to the Secretary of State . |
| 33 | He had set the pattern for the modern missionary movement but his own assessment of himself was typically modest : ‘ I can plod . |
| 34 | ( ii ) The minister of state in charge of the Prison Department ( not the Secretary of State himself ) then sets the date for the first review by the local review committee . |
| 35 | ( iv ) If a discretionary life sentence is passed , the minister of state sets the date for the first review strictly in accordance with the views of the judiciary , thus following the decision in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , and Mr. Hurd 's 1987 statement . |
| 36 | It is convenient to consider the third and fourth issues together : has the prisoner the right to make representations before the Secretary of State sets the date for the first review , and has he a right to be told the judicial view of his tariff ? |
| 37 | The arbitrator , who may be the district judge , a judge or an ‘ outside arbitrator , ’ sets the date for the single substantive hearing of the dispute . |
| 38 | This quote from a chapter in the publication Innovations in Leisure and Recreation for People with a Mental Handicap ( Denziloe , 1990 , p. 317 ) sets the scene for the Startrac Project , established in April 1990 , which was initially planned and controlled by the three voluntary service organisations mentioned . |
| 39 | ‘ The UK is the No 1 volume market for New Zealand by a large margin and sets the scene for the other markets . ’ |
| 40 | It must be said that Cardus 's review expressed the reservation that there was , perhaps , some sameness of carriage and accent in each of the three performances , whether it was the First Symphony , the Seventh , or the Apollonian Fourth ( a reading Karajan later modified ) ; but his review characteristically paints a picture , sets the scene for the absent reader : |
| 41 | The indicative offer follows this stage and sets the scene for the formal eye ball to eye ball negotiations . |
| 42 | Hayez 's ‘ Pietro Rossi ’ , considered to be a key work in Romantic painting ( Bottega di San Luca ) sets the tone for the nineteenth-century section . |
| 43 | The Prologue ( DV 1 ) sets the tone for the whole document . |
| 44 | This week 's riot by 150 schoolgirls at Wimbledon station will almost certainly prove to be the crucial event of the election period , and the one which sets the tone for the next decade or so . |
| 45 | The chapter sets the tenor for the whole work in so far as it tries to examine the social conditions under which blacks became involved in sport , first in the USA and then in Great Britain . |
| 46 | Each stage of development effectively sets the stage for the next . |
| 47 | Despite this glimpse of vintage anti-Semitic paranoia , setting the tone for the new wave of anti Jewish action and propaganda which began in the last months of 1937 and continued throughout the following year , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was scarcely touched upon in Hitler 's speeches throughout the critical year of 1938 . |
| 48 | It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught . |
| 49 | Protagon believes that , by offering its string adjustment facility , that it is ‘ raising the stakes ’ , so to speak … setting the trend for the nineties , and giving a new meaning to the term ‘ user-friendly ’ . |
| 50 | The first day was always important , it set the tone for the whole year . |
| 51 | These were the Cold Warriors who set the tone for the Fifties . |
| 52 | This set the tone for the 1980s , when , despite successive draconian states of emergency , both secondary schools and universities have played a major part in challenging the government . |
| 53 | Mr Kinnock 's job at conference must be to demonstrate Labour 's electability by confirming the party 's new revisionism , by reassuring voters on issues where there is still doubt and , above all , by helping set the agenda for the 1990s . |
| 54 | First of all , set the scene for the big day : our fabulous , easy-to-make edible decorations will add the finishing festive touches to your dining room . |
| 55 | That set the pattern for the next few days . |
| 56 | THE film made me laugh and I really loved it when Kevin set the traps for the two bad men . |
| 57 | The relative stability in the north that followed Barbarossa 's defeat set the stage for the next step in the rise of the city states . |