Example sentences of "[verb] set [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ scientific commission ’ comprising some of the most learned people on the island was set up , and they produced a report designed to set fears at rest . |
| 2 | Despite student impressions to the contrary , exams are not designed to set traps for unwary students . |
| 3 | If a group of workers combined in an association of union and tried to set wages above their ‘ natural ’ level , their actions amounted to ‘ a conspiracy in restraint of trade ’ since the price level of goods would be artificially distorted and the competitive market undermined . |
| 4 | You may also need to set jumpers on the motherboard according to the type of RAM devices you are using and the video card . |
| 5 | The AMA admits that the federal government has set prices on doctors ' services before , and those controls have withstood court challenge . |
| 6 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) Education and Enterprise Initiative has set targets for ten per cent of teachers each year to be seconded to industry and for all school leavers to spend at least two weeks on Work Experience . |
| 7 | McGeechan believes that Sole has set standards of performance with his pace and mobility in the loose which only a handful of British players , such as Brian Moore of England , are currently emulating . |
| 8 | The NCGA , supported by the Government Finance Officers ' Association , was concerned with state and local government ; the Council of State Governments was concerned with state government ; the General Accounting Office of the Federal Government has set standards for federal departments and agencies . |
| 9 | If an affluent investor had invested in a poor stock , he might not object as he would enjoy setting losses against capital gains for the year . |
| 10 | To achieve this they pursued tight monetary policies which in many cases involved setting targets for the growth in money supply . |
| 11 | We are giving the regulators powers to set standards of service , covering such matters as fixed appointment times for service calls . |
| 12 | In June 1989 , isolated in the European Community and under pressure from Cabinet ministers , she agreed to set conditions for British entry to the EMS . |
| 13 | The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs . |
| 14 | Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track . |
| 15 | The first would be used to set targets for improved river quality based on six " use " classes ; fisheries ecosystem , abstraction for drinking supply , abstracting for agricultural and industrial use , water sports , commercial farming of fish and shellfish , and special ecosystem ( i.e. specific areas for the purposes of nature conservation ) . |
| 16 | There is an urgent need for more socioeconomic information in this field to help set guidelines for the future . |
| 17 | The librarian and the teachers will have to set priorities for information use and these priorities are likely to include 1 ) The availability of a flexible , easy to use information retrieval system , often called a database management system ( DBMS ) which will allow the creation of a very large database ( e.g. OPAC ) or smaller curriculum-related databases ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 18 | It is a virtual certainty that the developed world will have to set standards for itself , probably through commitments within the ECE or OECD framework , before attempting the infinitely difficult problem of persuading the South to join it in global agreements . |
| 19 | Within six months , every local education authority will have to set targets for steadily increasing nursery and childcare services . |
| 20 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 21 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 22 | And she could n't wait to see his face when Maria denied ever having set eyes on her before . |
| 23 | So it is that for Douglas MacBain it is a clearly defined aim to consider setting targets for numbers of churches to be planted in the coming decade and to work to facilitate this . |
| 24 | Said Lewis : ‘ I have to keep setting goals for myself and that 's why I would like to fight Tyson . |
| 25 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 26 | These groups , which would be multidisciplinary , would aim to set priorities for research . |
| 27 | Delegates at the UN in Geneva had hoped to set standards for every aspect of environment and development . |
| 28 | It has been easier in the past to give in to the child 's demands , so learning to set limits across all aspects of the child 's behaviour can be critical for coping with the battles about food . |
| 29 | Given their ( rational ) expectations , firms agree to set prices at P in periods 1 and 2 and therefore expect to produce a level of output in both periods equal to y n . |
| 30 | Should she intervene , should she break them up , or should she ignore her uninvited guest , pretend , professionally , never to have set eyes on her before ? |