Example sentences of "[noun sg] set down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 2 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |
| 3 | The grinning waiter set down a cup of coffee by my hand . |
| 4 | The waiter set down the glasses , saying , ‘ It should be entirely forbidden . ’ |
| 5 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 6 | The magistrate set down a trial date of the fourth of February . |
| 7 | Lipsey lays this out in the Introduction to his Introduction and the rest of his book sets down the basis of a Positive economics . |
| 8 | It 's very difficult for Jet to do anything about it because the situation is that Jet is bound by the statutes of the Jet joint undertaking and this is a legal document setting down the conditions under which we work , which has been agreed by governments and the council of ministers , and essentially the situation is that there are two types of people employed in the Jet team . |
| 9 | The 1987 ( and subsequent ) Pay and Conditions Order set down a clear statutory requirement upon headteachers to consult with the staff of the school . |
| 10 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 11 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |