Example sentences of "[that] set the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This biologic fact was intricately connected with other climatic and geophysical events that set the mould for future cycles of evolution and extinction . |
2 | And that set the scene perfectly for Hick , a man who does n't seem to know where his next Test run is coming from , yet bats like superman in the knock-about stuff . |
3 | Though the Khmers Rouges signed the agreement in Paris in 1991 that set the scene for the election campaign , they have not honoured their promise to stop fighting . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In 1979 Labour was obviously in a panic — that set the mood . |
7 | Undoubtedly the product that set the pace was Aldus PageMaker . |
8 | One bomb , not three , and a tearing , screaming explosion that set the lights swaying on their wires and filled the air with choking dust . |
9 | We 're a good mix of people that set the trends , the ‘ see and be seen ’ generation … |
10 | Which presents enthusiasts of Rossi 's work with a dreadful dilemma : we want to see more and more of his photographs that set the standard for aerial work , equally we 're convinced that his sub-aqua images would be equally ravishing . |
11 | For only on foot does one detect the subtle rise and fall of ground to which the earliest settlers were so sensitive , or alignments in the town scene that may throw light on some fundamental change of plan : or the names of streets and lanes that set the mind working at once . |
12 | For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God . |
13 | Upstairs Downstairs , World at War , Edward VII ( in the 1970s ) ; Brideshead Revisited , Jewel in the Crown ( 1980s ) — all were ITV programmes that set the elitists purring . |
14 | In fact , during 1943–44 Albert played in every outfield position at least once and he still scored goals that set the fans ' interest alight . |
15 | Leroy May got the first goal … that set the fans dancing … and United went thro on penalties … it was one of their best nights of the year … |
16 | Inevitably , the lost that set the buyers alight were the North American and European imports , but it seems mere novelty value can no longer secure the top prices . |
17 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
18 | ‘ And that set the pattern . |
19 | But clearly it was imperialistic palaeontologists rather than imperialist fossils that set the pattern in both cases . |
20 | Though much of the 48-minute speech was devoted to outlining policies Labour had for Britain and the wider world , it was his attacks on Mr Major that set the Blackpool Labour Conference alight . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
23 | Business Assignments is designed for the centres that set the standards in executive language training … |
24 | In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon . |
25 | In fact , one of the features that sets the goat-antelopes apart from their relatives is the relatively thin and fragile skull . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The computer that sets the type for this page altered ‘ privileged ’ to ‘ privileged ’ last week . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It is what we doubt and not how we doubt that sets the market value of doubting . |