Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sleeves were rolled up — which was what led me to make such an assumption — but really it was his hair that set the tone . |
| 2 | The computer that sets the type for this page altered ‘ privileged ’ to ‘ privileged ’ last week . |
| 3 | Brindley died in Staffordshire in 1772 , and although he did not live to see the realization of his dream , his was the unlettered genius that set the great age of canal-building in motion . |
| 4 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 5 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly the product that set the pace was Aldus PageMaker . |
| 7 | One bomb , not three , and a tearing , screaming explosion that set the lights swaying on their wires and filled the air with choking dust . |
| 8 | The event that set the modern Pacific on its unrelenting climb towards world dominion happened , by an entirely appropriate coincidence , to be the first ever shown clear across America , on coast-to-coast television . |
| 9 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 10 | Michael Crawford 's career , until now , has been a series of brilliant firework bursts which have never quite ignited into an enduring setpiece that sets the sky alight . |
| 11 | Add to that all manner of other goodies — like fitting your spreadsheet to the printed page , automatic formatting ( in other words choosing colour schemes and text styles in order to make the sheet look better ) and so on , and you have an application that sets the standard for others to follow . |
| 12 | In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon . |
| 13 | THE FUTURE of Antarctica turns on the outcome of an international conference which Michel Rocard , the French Prime Minister , opened yesterday with a speech that set the tone for what will be a fiercely political debate . |
| 14 | Significantly , for Lukacs , it is precisely the material situation of the writer in relation to socialism that sets the socialist realist apart from the bourgeois critical realist . |
| 15 | But presumably there were one or two great exponents around at that time that set the whole thing off ? |
| 16 | It has been important to review the establishment of a binary system and some of its implications , as although the CNAA was created in 1964 , it was the binary policy and its implementation that set the seal on the CNAA 's operations for the next two decades . |
| 17 | He again sat down on the settle opposite her , and sipped a glass of beer before saying thoughtfully , ‘ Funny , when you come to think about it , but it 's what happens when you 're a bairn that sets the pattern for a man or woman , in most cases anyway . ’ |