Example sentences of "set their [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Once they had set their feet on the path they tumbled down bold and bouncy as puppies . |
| 5 | They left the Rorim and set their faces towards the hills . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |