Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the obvious cost savings , companies must set the expense of re-implementing their system in a new environment . |
| 2 | Concern about a baby 's bowel movements can set the scene for concern and anxiety . |
| 3 | Masses of willow warblers , chiff-chaffs , blackcaps , whitethroats and sometimes yellow-browed or Pallas 's warblers will set the pulses racing , and the flocks of chaffinch and brambling will be painstakingly examined in the hope of finding perhaps a little bunting , rustic bunting or Arctic redpoll . |
| 4 | The figures used to set the ‘ obsolescence rate ’ are arbitrary and take little account of subject differences . |
| 5 | In a trice , office machines can set the type and print it out in fine detail . |
| 6 | This infrastructural integration would , he hoped , stimulate a comparable integration of curriculum areas utilising the combined facilities , for which the developing IS and PSD courses would set the scene . |
| 7 | Most exporters would like to avoid exchange risk by invoicing in Sterling but they are now finding that markets will set the price and the method of pricing . |
| 8 | A series of positive reports regarding homework tasks can set the tone of the group to follow . |
| 9 | Within the next few months , for instance , the party and unions should set the level of fines that recalcitrant unions would incur . |
| 10 | That ‘ the party and unions should set the level of fines that recalcitrant unions would incur ’ . |
| 11 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |