Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] set a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it set a standard , model housing of any description could only touch the fringes of the problem ; the vast majority of the poor continued to live in houses far from model . |
| 2 | Even if she sets a track record she would already have been upstaged by the people 's champion . |
| 3 | But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive . |
| 4 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
| 5 | And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah . |
| 6 | If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics . |
| 7 | If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges . |
| 8 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 9 | Unless you set a time or something . |
| 10 | The scheme is being widely debated within television because it sets a precedent for other companies . |
| 11 | Nudes news : Women are upset by female nudity in films because it sets an impossible standard but think there should be more male nudes on screen , according to a Glamour magazine survey . |
| 12 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 13 | Their arrest came only days after they set a new world record for cycling at altitude across the Himalayas . |
| 14 | BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them . |
| 15 | Right , so , when you set a standard , is that to one person or for everybody ? |
| 16 | So long as you set a limit to the essay you will have confidence and control . |
| 17 | As soon as you set a limit to your endurance , you are lost . |
| 18 | However , Hamilton 's day ended on a high as she set a new Ulster Junior and Senior record in the 100m backstroke and lifted the O'Neill Tray . |
| 19 | It was an electric car that first broke the 100 km/h barrier , when it set a world speed record of 104 km/h in 1898 . |
| 20 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 21 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
| 22 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
| 23 | Looks of surprise were exchanged all round them as he set an arm round Lachlan 's shoulders that stiffened and then relaxed ; and then the cheering erupted . |