Example sentences of "[vb past] set [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a group of workers combined in an association of union and tried to set wages above their ‘ natural ’ level , their actions amounted to ‘ a conspiracy in restraint of trade ’ since the price level of goods would be artificially distorted and the competitive market undermined . |
| 2 | To achieve this they pursued tight monetary policies which in many cases involved setting targets for the growth in money supply . |
| 3 | In June 1989 , isolated in the European Community and under pressure from Cabinet ministers , she agreed to set conditions for British entry to the EMS . |
| 4 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 5 | I 'd be happy if I never had to set eyes on you again ! ’ |
| 6 | Two attackers entered the British base and had set detonators on the bombs before they were discovered by a 64-year-old German maintenance worker . |
| 7 | The home had set times for the toilet : 9am , 3pm , and 9pm . |
| 8 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 9 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 10 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 11 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 12 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 13 | It was not difficult for Laura to remember the first time she had set eyes on Ross Wyndham , because it had also been the day of her cousin 's wedding . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the government continued setting targets for a reduction in PSBR . |