Example sentences of "and set the [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ] .
3 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 .
4 Indeed , to anticipate a little , in sixty-seven of the eighty-two cases which I observed and recorded the client announced his need and set the objective for the solicitor .
5 He was ahead of his time and set the pattern for the post-war development of soccer as a ‘ media event ’ .
6 A ntecedent events are those events that precede , lead up to and set the stage for the disobedient
7 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 .
8 The responsible manager must ensure that his company is greener than green on all the major issues according to current opinion , demonstrate to the world at large that this is so , and , for the future , to help form opinions and set the standards for the company 's own as well as the common good .
9 It became an essential research tool in the early quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion , helped to clarify the scope of the problem of heating , containing and controlling the deuterium fuel , and set the parameters for the development of the subsequent fusion research programme .
10 The covering letter to the Information memorandum — the stage two transmittal letter — will normally detail further sale procedures and set the timetable for the submission of indicative offers .
11 Ramblin' Jeff hooks you in with the opening ‘ Goin' Down ’ , a cover of a Don Nix song that lurches drunkenly out of the speakers and sets the mood for the rest of the record .
12 This session ‘ To strengthen the poor ’ is important and sets the tone for the rest of the weekend .
13 The indicative offer follows this stage and sets the scene for the formal eye ball to eye ball negotiations .
14 ‘ The UK is the No 1 volume market for New Zealand by a large margin and sets the scene for the other markets . ’
15 J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) .
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