Example sentences of "[modal v] set a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I 've said the Policy Committee guideline was that we should set a budget within the range seventy two million to seventy three point three million , which means at the lower level , if you go for the lower level er to which says for ninety four five about almost exactly a million pounds . |
| 2 | we should , we should set a target , an initial target , that we wish to hi to hit . |
| 3 | Harry Greenway , Conservative MP for Ealing North , said the Home Secretary should set a limit on the expenditure of the inquiry and reassure people the money was being spent wisely . |
| 4 | ‘ With so many of us we ought to set a rota for cooking . |
| 5 | If they do not , it will be for their auditors to discuss the matter with the Task Force , on a no-names basis , if they have misgivings about the acceptability of a treatment proposed by a client which hovers in the often grey border area between good and bad practice , and which might set a precedent for other companies . |
| 6 | This decision enabled the Crown to prohibit , as a matter of course , the disclosure of a wide range of information such as correspondence with government departments , medical records and accident reports , on the ground that disclosure might set a precedent and lead to potentially harmful documents being disclosed in the future . |
| 7 | Besides , he 'll set a man to watch you . |
| 8 | Companies and auditors are not discussing with the UITF , before finalising their accounts , proposed accounting treatments that could set a precedent for other companies . |
| 9 | It was not only Virgin 's reputation that was being challenged — Branson had no doubt that the contract signed with Sting was fair ; but if a court ruled otherwise it could set a precedent which other acts , and their lawyers , would be looking to exploit . |
| 10 | There are fears that British Steel 's decision could set a precedent and discourage other quarries in the Dales from transferring stone from road to rail . |
| 11 | The 1984 Rates Act introduced a constitutional change of the utmost importance — the principle that central government could set a limit to the amount of taxation a local authority could levy . |
| 12 | Some crafts had strong traditions of literacy ; a weaver , for example , could set a book on the loom and read while working . |
| 13 | While a kettle boiled she could set a table , light a fire , and watch over a cooking breakfast . |
| 14 | Thus , for the question about the slow pace of educational change you could set a paragraph to answer the following questions . |
| 15 | The instruction could set a condition code to indicate whether the search was terminated by a successful comparison or by L becoming zero ; alternatively , one of these two results could cause a skip . |
| 16 | So , too , does some guess about where the government may set a capping limit . |
| 17 | Stack-oriented computers may set a condition code in the top element of the stack as a result of a test or comparison instruction ; a jump instruction is then provided to jump conditional on the state of this top element ( removing the element after testing ) . |
| 18 | It will be the show 's British premiere , but critics have expressed fears that the long run may set a precedent , making the National like any other West End theatre . |
| 19 | However , its closure , ordered under new legislation which insists that the best available technology be used to combat pollution , may set a precedent for hundreds of other incinerators across the country . |
| 20 | THE son of millionaire fraudster Robert Maxwell tried to ban a charity children 's book which he claimed would set a jury against him . |
| 21 | The danger with that we believe could be that we would set a date for the merger and take all the important issues and discussions , how many regions will it have will we have , the those regions and a hundred and one other problems raised by that merger into a tight timescale . |
| 22 | I can not withdraw the amendment , which would set a date for the introduction of a further education funding council . |
| 23 | Then the monstrous green body exploded like a balloon of filth , spattering the walls of the cavern and the cages of the cowering young prisoners — the last time he/she would set a mark upon them . |
| 24 | Ever again would set a pattern . |
| 25 | Should he make it three out of four , that would set a record unmatched even by Jack Nicklaus , despite his six victories between 1963 and 1986 . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 27 | The greater involvement of the Security Council in matters pertaining to disarmament had reportedly been resisted by India , a non-permanent member , on grounds that it would set a precedent for future intrusive inspections and controls by the UN . |
| 28 | It would set a precedent in an area of outstanding natural beauty . |
| 29 | He says it would set a precedent . |
| 30 | In the agriculture and forestry sector the committee would set a target only for rice production , leaving export quotas for other major products such as rubber and coffee to be set by government departments . |