Example sentences of "[vb past] set the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEESDALE District Council agreed to set the poll tax at £242.23 compared to £169.66 last year a 42pc increase of £72.57 . |
| 2 | Officials see little need for early ‘ crisis ’ talks on the situation in Japan but believe that the G7 meeting on April 26 is almost certain to focus on the Japanese situation , with the International Monetary Fund expected to set the scene with new forecasts for the global economy . |
| 3 | His arrival seemed to set the conveyor belt in motion , and she lost all track of time as she dealt with one actor after another , flinching every time the door opened , yet aware of a peculiar emptiness when Dane failed to show up . |
| 4 | In a near-fatal aperçu , Armstrong 's comment on the civil servant 's need to be ‘ economical with the truth ’ seemed to set the seal on a growing process of encroachment on individual freedoms by a strong-minded , centralist government . |
| 5 | Finally the wool is removed , rinsed in water with salt added to set the dye , and dried in the sun . |
| 6 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 7 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 8 | Around the same time , he acted to set the procedure of constitutional reform in motion . |
| 9 | Another climb guaranteed to set the pulse racing , is to the top of Suilven , and the walk out passes one of our favourite fishing locations , Fionn Loch , which lies below Suilven 's towering heights . |
| 10 | The discouraging effects of prolonged unemployment , experience in the labour market with employers and official intermediaries , public statements by political and economic commentators , politicians , and employers about the future of employment are all part of a social process of exclusion , which probably began to set the agenda in the minds of individual older workers in the After Redundancy study even before the redundancy itself took place . |
| 11 | Pete began to set the pieces out on the board . |
| 12 | They began to set the table , growing relaxed and easy , enjoying the formality of the room , when Moran came in again from the fields . |
| 13 | Emil and his crew , including me , immediately began setting the tables round the passengers for dinner , and were soon serving warm goat 's cheese and radicchio salads followed by circles of rare Chateaubriand with snow peas and matchstick carrots and finally rich orange sorbets smothered in fluffy whipped cream and nuts . |
| 14 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 15 | The interpretation of Mannheim 's project that von Schelting initiated set the scene for its incorporation into mainstream functionalist sociology . |
| 16 | This line proves that Mark Antony meant to set the people off , to kill the members of the conspiracy . |
| 17 | The Tories ' overwhelming victory in 1987 appeared to set the seal upon the triumph of bourgeois capitalism . |
| 18 | The Presidents of Burkina , Côte d'Ivoire , The Gambia , Nigeria , and Togo participated in the meeting , which appeared to set the seal on 19 months of civil war estimated to have cost 15,000 lives including that of former President Samuel Doe . |
| 19 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 20 | ‘ I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you . |
| 21 | Dunlop continued to set the pace when winning the 250cc McBride Fashions Irish Championship race from Davy Johnston with Stephen Hazlett , third . |
| 22 | Central to Agricultural Relief , as with the other elements of the popular movement , remained the belief that the community had to set the agenda of priorities and participate in seeking solutions . |
| 23 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 24 | Government had to set the example . |
| 25 | Mackenzie 's men had to set the traps themselves . |
| 26 | He had to set the argument for delay against others which weighed in favour of publication . |
| 27 | After the Secretary of State , having received judicial advice , had set the date for the first review of Mr. Pegg 's sentence in August 1993 , and thus set his tariff , in January 1989 Mr. Pegg submitted a petition to the Secretary of State . |
| 28 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 29 | She laughed out loud , since it was he who had set the pace . |
| 30 | Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps . |