Example sentences of "set the [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In seeking to set the scene for the changing face of county hall , and in summarising the changing relationships between all involved in education , it is important to consider the meaning of ‘ delegation of authority ’ and the values it contains . |
| 2 | Presumably they were only here to set the scene for the current convention , as nothing represented a period later than the fifteenth century . |
| 3 | To that end this meeting will bring together the most prominent scholars in the field to set the agenda for the future direction of cultural studies . |
| 4 | Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy . |
| 5 | The regional meetings called to set the agenda for the big human-rights conference in Vienna next month have provided forums for this bitterness . |
| 6 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 7 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 8 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 9 | The mark also edged higher against the dollar after the Bundesbank announced it would allow market forces to set the rate for the weekly cash injection today , signalling a potential rise in the ‘ repo ’ rate . |
| 10 | They will be accompanied by the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and hundreds of dancers in a spectacle which will set the scene for the greatest soccer occasion in the history of the United States . |
| 11 | Such relations both define the form of inequality between places at any one time and also help set the scene for the next form of uneven development . |
| 12 | They control initially and you know being feeling that you 're part of it you 're in charge of it can set the scene for the whole conversation . |
| 13 | With exposure lock , you can set the exposure for the full lighting , and this setting is then unaffected both when the lamps are switched off and also when the tree-lights are switched on , thus giving the lit tree its full dramatic impact . |
| 14 | This means accepting that the Westminster majority — the Tories — will set the agenda for the next four to five years ; and that Labour 's role is simply to legitimise the Tory programme by playing our part as Her Majesty 's official and loyal opposition . |
| 15 | This work will set the tone for the new structure , and I hope can be completed well within two months . |
| 16 | The comments come just ahead of two key decisions by Scottish Office ministers which will set the tone for the new curriculum and could damage the wide agreement over its introduction . |
| 17 | Reception areas , which should set the tone for the entire hotel , so often let it down . |
| 18 | There 's the lack of national political debate which raise the tough , awkward questions that will act as restraints upon those controlling the conflict , and could set the tone for the longer- run peace . |
| 19 | Besides two short piano pieces from Sanctus , Words For The Dying also includes the luminous The Soul of Carmen Miranda , one of three spontaneous and highly promising recordings with Eno that will set the tone for the next album , ‘ a rock'n'roll record I can be happy with because the percussion wo n't hit me over the head . ’ |
| 20 | Sadly the many myths about this stage of development could set the stage for the very events you wish to prevent . |
| 21 | The Congress subsequently agreed to grant Yeltsin emergency powers to deal with the crisis situation in the republic and set the date for the direct election of a President of Russia [ see pp. 38130-31 ] . |
| 22 | Julia waited to give Raffaella the bad news until she had delivered her lesson , led a halting conversation in English about the future of Italy , handed out the previous week 's exercises that she had marked , and set the work for the next lesson . |
| 23 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 24 | That eventuality would have been a worry for the UN had the Bosnian Serbs said Yes and thereby set the scene for the biggest UN peacekeeping operation ever . |
| 25 | UNESCO-sponsored research , particularly associated with the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems , led to the publication of Many Voices , One World ( MacBride Commission , 1980 ) , which set the agenda for the 1980s and provided a spur to the creation of World Communications Year ( 1983 ) , continuing World Conferences on Strategies and Policies for Informatics , and other initiatives . |
| 26 | At an earlier meeting , in Turnberry ( Scotland ) on June 7-8 , the North Atlantic Council ( of NATO Foreign Ministers ) had announced outline proposals for improving co-operation with the Warsaw Pact and set the agenda for the forthcoming summit . |
| 27 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 28 | A ntecedent events are those events that precede , lead up to and set the stage for the disobedient |
| 29 | In form and style they set the pattern for the first generation of purpose-built station buildings . |
| 30 | He was ahead of his time and set the pattern for the post-war development of soccer as a ‘ media event ’ . |