Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men are the only animals to set store by discovering , acquiring and displaying materials comparatively rare in nature , frequently only to be obtained from distant sources and commonly useless for the purposes of daily life . |
| 2 | Michael at Cat 's Whiskers set hair on rollers then loosened the curls into ringlets |
| 3 | John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains . |
| 4 | The marginal distributions of both explanatory and response variables set limits to the size of effect that is possible ; to put this formally , we say that d is a marginal dependent measure . |
| 5 | Since most people have their eyes set side by side , only vertical edges are normally affected by parallax . |
| 6 | The first concert of this year 's festival on May 14th is given by members of the London Handel Orchestra , and includes works by Vivaldi , and Telemann , and a group of Handel songs setting texts in English , French , German , Italian and Spanish . |
| 7 | They show in particular how accountants came to feel frustrated by their attempts to set standards within what they saw as an unhelpful legal environment . |
| 8 | It requires member states to set rules on mandatory bids , providing information to shareholders and treating them equally . |
| 9 | It is prudent for negotiators to set objectives during the preparation stage . |
| 10 | In the First World War radicals had looked to the emerging superpowers to enable democratic movements to set Europe to rights — whether by the enforcement of a Pax Americana , or by the boost given by the Russian Revolution to the campaign for a negotiated peace . |
| 11 | Even good-looking baskets set side by side on the floor can hold a good deal of paraphernalia — including bottles or books — with a certain panache . |
| 12 | Situations occur where trade union negotiators set targets for achievement of these goals which appear to be at odds with the targets set by management for the organisation ( and its employees ) . |
| 13 | The flowers of these can not be fertilised with their own pollen and are known as self-incompatible or self-sterile , whereas self-fertile ( self-compatible ) varieties set fruit without needing pollen from another tree . |
| 14 | And dry it would have been if the heavens had n't opened the moment the ship docked and the troops set foot on French soil . |
| 15 | Witnesses were reported to have said that troops set fire to shops , and that tank-fire was directed at houses [ for disorder in Sirnak in March 1992 see p. 38833 ] . |
| 16 | At other times temperature is reduced to 18°C unless , using local controls , guests set temperature to their own liking . |
| 17 | Last night , after smashing windows , the culprits set fire to a library room and flames spread to highly flammable materials in a store room . |
| 18 | Last night , after smashing windows , the culprits set fire to a library room and flames spread to highly flammable materials in a store room . |
| 19 | The idea is that their views will go forward to the IRFB and , astonishingly , it is not out of the question that one aspect or more of those variations could be dropped even before the Lions set foot in New Zealand . |
| 20 | The authorities set limits to the expansion of bank deposits . |
| 21 | Flames set light to his jacket and Mr Williams was helped into a nearby toilet where his hands were drenched with water . |
| 22 | New rules set criteria on colour and curve to promote efficient packing and marketing . |
| 23 | Police threaten crackdown at start of round-table talks East Germans set deadline for poll . |
| 24 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 25 | Issues of concern were : how far should workers get involved in discussions with social fund officers about individual cases ; how actively should workers support individual applications in view of the fact that there is a limited budget and therefore a limit to the number of people who could be helped ; and should bureaux help social fund officers to set priorities between groups of claimants ? |
| 26 | These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved . |
| 27 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 28 | In his model firms set prices at the end of period t - 1 to cover period t . |
| 29 | Firms set prices as a mark up over average cost . |
| 30 | Derry firms set sights on Chicago |