Example sentences of "set the [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bluntly , the Shadow Cabinet and unions need to get their fingers out — with some expedition — to set the limits of the proposed legal framework . |
| 2 | While blithely ignoring this fact , all Mr Clement will say is that ‘ bluntly , the Shadow Cabinet and unions need to get their fingers out — with some expedition — to set the limits of the proposed legal framework ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Presumably they were only here to set the scene for the current convention , as nothing represented a period later than the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The regional meetings called to set the agenda for the big human-rights conference in Vienna next month have provided forums for this bitterness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 11 | In February 1972 , Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship . |
| 12 | Six weeks after Lancaster 's execution , on 2 May 1322 , parliament assembled at York to set the seal on the royalist victory . |
| 13 | Some manufacturers supply a wood or plastic template in their kits which will enable you to set the pitch to the recommended range . |
| 14 | Commitment to getting this right first time will improve our short-term results and help to set the business on the right footing for future investment and development . |
| 15 | While the vast majority of those in work claim the relevant personal allowances — such as the single person 's or the married man 's tax allowance — even these are of most value to high earners who are able to set the allowances against the top rate of tax for which they are liable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This work will set the tone for the new structure , and I hope can be completed well within two months . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Reception areas , which should set the tone for the entire hotel , so often let it down . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Sadly the many myths about this stage of development could set the stage for the very events you wish to prevent . |
| 28 | She would set the table with the best glass and cutlery she could lay her hands on , and her meals always had something a little different about them . |
| 29 | We set the tone at the Tory Conferences and the other parties have followed suit . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |