Example sentences of "set before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |
| 2 | It is difficult to see how anyone could notice the absence of white meat or fish with such an unending variety of tastes set before them . |
| 3 | An array of instances , almost of specimens , is set before us ; and we are invited to make our own observations , inferring from them as much as they will bear . |
| 4 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 5 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 6 | In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says , ‘ Oh , that 's far , far too much ! |
| 7 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 8 | Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him . |
| 9 | He seized the Scotch that was set before him and drained it . |
| 10 | The writer of the Book of Hebrews links the joy and suffering of Christ by saying : ‘ Let us fix our eyes on Jesus , the author and perfecter of our faith , who for the joy set before him endured the cross , scorning its shame , and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God . ’ |
| 11 | In 1910 , when the Golden Jubilee of Thomas Street was being celebrated , the Quarterly Board looked at all the work of God on the Circuit and among other things they recorded their feeling that ‘ in Edenderry there is set before us an open door and we are determined to enter in . ’ |
| 12 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 13 | The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place . |
| 14 | Some types require the ‘ static ’ tracking to be set before any running takes place . |
| 15 | Sometimes one set of sculptors would be finishing an already countermanded set before the news of yet more changes reached them . |
| 16 | Marked A to E , A being the slowest ( recommended for hard metals ) , and E the highest ( for wood ) , the dial is set before cutting begins , so that speed will increase only up to that setting : range is 0 to 2400rpm . |
| 17 | I confess to not being in a position to bring his painstaking research into question so I shall confine myself to what is set before me . |
| 18 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 19 | A fair summary of the whole might be ‘ the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God , revealed in Jesus ’ teaching and example , and set before us as the goal which we are called to realise' . |
| 20 | Three long rows of chairs are set before the stage , and there are tables with candelabras , goblets and punch bowls ( the glass is cracked and filthy ) . |
| 21 | However , it was also acknowledged that the task set before the filmmakers was so large that it defied reducing the complex series of events into a simple formula drama . |
| 22 | Never a season passes without something new being set before us ; the resources of the rose seem limitless . |
| 23 | The china cup of brandy set before him was like nectar . |
| 24 | This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy . |
| 25 | If using QFE , make certain that this is set before starting the final turn . |
| 26 | In a similar way , the fact that the Prime Minister is leader of the party and the fact that the majority party in Parliament invariably supports the Prime Minister 's lead and the legislation set before them , does not " prove " that the party itself is without influence over the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | 4 Parties aim to win office and they compete for the support of the electorate at the polls on the basis of programmes of policies , or manifestos , that are set before the electorate for their judgement . |
| 28 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 29 | The result will be a governing coalition for which no one voted , and with policies ( born of the necessity for compromise to effect the coalition ) which were never set before the electorate for their approval and support . |
| 30 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |