Example sentences of "[vb past] set the [noun sg] " 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 | They began to set the table , growing relaxed and easy , enjoying the formality of the room , when Moran came in again from the fields . |
| 12 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 13 | The interpretation of Mannheim 's project that von Schelting initiated set the scene for its incorporation into mainstream functionalist sociology . |
| 14 | The Tories ' overwhelming victory in 1987 appeared to set the seal upon the triumph of bourgeois capitalism . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you . |
| 18 | Dunlop continued to set the pace when winning the 250cc McBride Fashions Irish Championship race from Davy Johnston with Stephen Hazlett , third . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Government had to set the example . |
| 22 | He had to set the argument for delay against others which weighed in favour of publication . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She laughed out loud , since it was he who had set the pace . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had set the video up earlier in the evening while Elaine was making supper . |
| 29 | ( The East Germans had set the mark at 2.34 to the rouble , instead of 1.70 , for all COMECON trade , while the Czechoslovak move took the crown 's rate from 13 to 20 to the rouble for trade with East Germany . ) |
| 30 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |