Example sentences of "[adv] set a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a rule-of-thumb pricing method , they decide to add a 10 per cent profit margin or ‘ mark-up ’ to average cost and so set a price of £4.95 . |
| 2 | She decided against it , and so set a pattern which was soon to become questionable . |
| 3 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 4 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 5 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 6 | In a report to the committee , David Chynoweth , finance director , called on the council not to set a budget any higher than its capping limit in order to avoid the inevitable disruption of business and impairment of council tax collection which would follow any action by the Scottish Secretary . |
| 7 | In a report to the committee , David Chynoweth , finance director , called on the council not to set a budget any higher than its capping limit in order to avoid the inevitable disruption of business and impairment of council tax collection which would follow any action by the Scottish Secretary . |
| 8 | However , in reaffirming it as an objective , Mr Kinnock was careful not to set a timescale for reducing unemployment to between 750,000 and one million , depending on circumstances . |
| 9 | We know the MiG-2s already set a ceiling record of 120,000 feet . |
| 10 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |
| 11 | Because of this , she would not set a date for the wedding . |
| 12 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 13 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 14 | But Cambridge City Council 's environmental health department warned that the success of the appeal did not set a precedent , and that the court had been careful to reiterate its concern at the ‘ grave breaches of the Food Hygiene Regulations ’ . |
| 15 | I have seen the results that he has achieved on fishing , and I am disgusted by them — I hope that they do not set a precedent . |
| 16 | The head office golf society has a big season lined up this year , so are hoping that the wet weather on March 31 at Langley Park will not set a precedent for its forthcoming dates . |
| 17 | Merrill Lynch found that ‘ one in five companies who provide assistance with bridging finance do not set a time limit , 28 per cent provide assistance for up to three months and 41 per cent for four to six months ’ . |
| 18 | He began to rake the shadows , furious he could not set a light ; his eyes were keener underwater than in this dark , all shapes around him were phantoms edged in blue in the starlight , but he saw no bundle among the sleeping men that could be Sycorax , no body that was Ariel 's . |
| 19 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 20 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 21 | We continue to accept the long term UN target for aid of 0.7 per cent of GNP , although we can not set a timetable for its achievement . |
| 22 | ‘ Grimm racing off to protect her … as soon set a mouse to escort a cat ! |
| 23 | The NHS in Scotland , for example , had already set a waiting list target of 18 months compared to the two-year target adopted for England and Wales . |
| 24 | West Germany has already set a limit of 25 ug/litre . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact my girlfriend Claudia and I have talked about marriage and I do n't see why we should n't wed sometime although we have not set a date . |
| 26 | We have not set a date for the completion of the exercise , but I shall bear what he said very much in mind . |
| 27 | Opposition protests were voiced in the days before commencement of the 30-day period of voter registration , set by the government for June 8 although it had still not set a date for the elections themselves . |
| 28 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 29 | Gatt simply replies : ‘ Just get on with it , I am not setting a field for bad balls . ’ |
| 30 | In the Lord Mayor 's speech in London in November 1985 Nigel Lawson formally abandoned M3 and since 1987 gave more emphasis to broad money or M4 ( which is M3 plus building society liabilities ) though not setting a target range . |