Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 2 | Although she sets the goals for him to achieve , in fact success depends on the mutual effort of the physiotherapist and the patient . |
| 3 | it is important that you set the straps for your own foot size . |
| 4 | Tradition rules , therefore , that you set the text in a serif face such as Times , Palatino , Bookman or Century Schoolbook while the headings are contrasted in a sans serif one such as Helvetica or Avant Garde . |
| 5 | OK , so you set the flat on fire . |
| 6 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 7 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 8 | In May last year he broke into the family 's him in Cheltenham , but he found nothing he wanted , so he set the house on fire . |
| 9 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 10 | The garter carriage can be used to knit a ribbed welt , but always remember that if you set the garter carriage to knit a 24 row welt and then leave it , that is all it will achieve . |
| 11 | If you set the right standards and she knows that she ca n't fool you , you 'll be all right . |
| 12 | You can have more fun though if you set the level of symmetry higher than 1 . |
| 13 | I says well you can if you set the alarm the clock ! |
| 14 | It may well be that if you set the penalties so high , and if you can have a hundred per cent detection , then there may well be a deterrent element in these crimes , but basically the law is clearing up a mess , and the mess has occurred , and then the law comes along and does the best it can . |
| 15 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 16 | ‘ The theory is that if we set the lead the passengers will overcome their inhibitions and join in , ’ Niall added . |
| 17 | He wanted me to do you and he set the scene . |
| 18 | And he set the plough , let go the handles and walked alongside the horses as they ploughed . |
| 19 | I just remember the time he came into erm and he had a fag and he set the alarm off . |
| 20 | and he set the alarm off |
| 21 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 22 | This building was the first great Byzantine church in Russia and it set the pattern for innumerable smaller churches . |
| 23 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 24 | They felt that if it set the wages of very poor people , the next thing it would do would be to start setting the wages of trade unionists . |
| 25 | It 's not the best of the campaigns but it sets the parameters , ’ he says.The message from the ‘ Mouth ’ is far more strident and inspiring . |
| 26 | This may well be a socially beneficial outcome , but it sets the criminal law dangerously at large unless the exercise of the powers thereby conferred is the subject of careful scrutiny by the courts . |
| 27 | In a sense that mechanism is the cause of the industrial change : the shift to a new international division of labour occurs because of the international market and the multinational corporations , or because they set the framework for profit-oriented production and investment . |
| 28 | I have gone into this at some length because it sets the stage for what Wittgenstein says . |
| 29 | Albert , take Carrie to fetch the goose while I set the table . ’ |
| 30 | Then go upstairs , while I set the necessary wheels in motion , and wait for me . " |