Example sentences of "[verb] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wants the Interim Advisory Committee , which will determine the profession 's pay increase for the 1990-91 year , to be allowed to remedy the error by using new money over and above the £600m limit the Government has set on the global sum available for any increase . |
| 2 | Bake at 400°F ( 200°C ) gas mark 6 for 40–45 min until the topping has set to a golden crust . |
| 3 | Once diarrhoeal disease has set in a baby will go under in just two or three days . |
| 4 | Once reality has set in the rewards are known . |
| 5 | Sometimes one set of sculptors would be finishing an already countermanded set before the news of yet more changes reached them . |
| 6 | Such a cost none the less needs setting against the advantages in any ecological study of gorilla social behaviour . |
| 7 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 8 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 9 | Three days later , as the sun began to set on a cloudless horizon , we reached the ‘ comforts ’ of the highest permanent army outpost . |
| 10 | As the sun began to set behind the Qutab Minar , I made up my mind to explore sometime soon what was once the most enormous complex of fortifications in all Islam . |
| 11 | Her face became set into a sober expression as she sat between Matt and one of the guides . |
| 12 | Turn off the heat and allow to set for a few minutes . |
| 13 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 14 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 15 | Why did Osiris have Set for a brother ? |
| 16 | Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level . |
| 17 | It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise . |
| 18 | He might have looked comic if his proud , wrinkled face had not remained set in a devout and dignified expression as he went through what was clearly a considerable exertion to his failing strength . |
| 19 | Tomorrow the Transport Secretary John MacGregor reintroduces the bill to privatize British Rail to the House of Commons , it had a rough journey through the House of Lords and until late last week it looked set for a stormy passage through the Commons too , but then Mr MacGregor introduced a series of amendments that everyone assumes will satisfy the rebellious Tory MP s , but as Michael Gold reports , there are still obstacles for Mr MacGregor to surmount . |
| 20 | Leave to set on a wire rack . |
| 21 | Leave to set in the fridge . |
| 22 | And this was a particularly popular view in the nineteen sixties and you found lots of people arguing that the American system needed reform that here was the president who was hamstrung by congress , or in the er in the er question I 've set in the , in the programme , you know , the president is less Gulliver in Lilliput , you know , as more like Pinocchio in Lilliput erm that the president has enormous responsibilities , that the nation looks to the president , the world looks to the president but the president ca n't do anything and that you need an increase in presidential power . |
| 23 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 24 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 25 | this was the day that members of our group had set for a sponsored walk , the length of the old Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 26 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
| 27 | From 1771 onwards a series of codes for different provinces , beginning with Silesia , had set for the first time clear official limits to what the lords could demand of their peasants , especially in terms of labour-services . |
| 28 | The older woman 's face had set into a white mask . |
| 29 | Her eye backtracked the almost circular route Lori had set through the Caribbean , the southern USA and Mexico . |
| 30 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |