Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am setting a target of £9M for CAW 1988 . |
| 2 | I hope you feel that I always let you follow yours , because , darling , your opinion on things affecting you and me , or either of us , I think important above all … you 're a bright star to march upon , and I 'm setting a steady pace . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm setting a deadline to open the course in spring 1994 , but if we can have it open in the late summer of 93 that would be ideal , ’ he said . |
| 4 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 5 | could do , I mean if I was setting the exam I probably would , sort of , you know people know roughly about , I mean they 're all going to drive cars one car . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh livid , You 're setting a bad example to the troops , apparently . ’ |
| 7 | I hate this thing about you know you 're making a tt er er you 're setting an example for the rest of the school , you know . |
| 8 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 9 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 10 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 11 | If we were setting a nursery rhyme to music , it would be quite appropriate to use the verse metre and rhythms also in the music ; the result would be simple and naïve . |
| 12 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 13 | They are setting a trap for me , she decided . |
| 14 | He believes politicians , church leaders , the judiciary and royalty have to question whether they are setting the right example . |
| 15 | Dancers on stage must establish their relationship to each other and to those who enter and also the particular way they are to set the action or dance going by initiating the phrasing , style and expressiveness of the choreographic design to be unfolded . |
| 16 | In my view many manufactured nets are skimped on width with the result that when they are set the necessary amount of slack within the net can only be achieved by the sacrifice of adequate height . |
| 17 | Back To The Planet might appeal to a section of the so-called dregs of society , but they feel they 're setting a different agenda . |
| 18 | And they 're setting no prices . |
| 19 | They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put |
| 20 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 21 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 22 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 23 | Part of me thinks that he is setting a useful precedent . |
| 24 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is setting an obstacle course for the courts which will make it more difficult for them to pass tough sentences in serious cases ? |
| 25 | He 's setting a brisk pace in the race for the electorate . |
| 26 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |
| 27 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |
| 28 | The first of these was the landowning class , the nobility and gentry ; the leaders of the community , whose duty it was to set a good example to the rest , to be ‘ the helpers and releuers of poore tenantes , and also be the maynteynors and supporters of all poore folkes ’ . |
| 29 | It was set a great deal more by the massive alteration in the balance of the Catholic community — the decline of France , Italy and Spain , the rise of Brazil , the United States , the Philippines , even Zaire , the revival of Catholic Eastern Europe , the larger shift from both west to east ( especially in Europe ) and from north to south . |
| 30 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |