Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set before " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy . |
| 2 | Confimation of this came last week when the longest-ever Education Bill was set before Parliament . |
| 3 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 4 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 5 | The objective of all the Departments within the Faculty of Humanities is to set before students the example of the highest standards of performance , to teach them to think for themselves , to develop their individual abilities , and to express their ideas cogently and objectively . |
| 6 | Three long rows of chairs are set before the stage , and there are tables with candelabras , goblets and punch bowls ( the glass is cracked and filthy ) . |
| 7 | Marked A to E , A being the slowest ( recommended for hard metals ) , and E the highest ( for wood ) , the dial is set before cutting begins , so that speed will increase only up to that setting : range is 0 to 2400rpm . |
| 8 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |