Example sentences of "[noun] set [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains . |
| 2 | The marginal distributions of both explanatory and response variables set limits to the size of effect that is possible ; to put this formally , we say that d is a marginal dependent measure . |
| 3 | The authorities set limits to the expansion of bank deposits . |
| 4 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 5 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 6 | In his model firms set prices at the end of period t - 1 to cover period t . |
| 7 | As the train was pulling into the station at Shkodër some of the rioters set light to the last two carriages ; at least two passengers were burned to death . |
| 8 | Broken snatches of conversation wafted around Isabel 's head as she followed de Villiers around the perimeter of the room , interspersed with the thunk of wooden trenchers as the servants set places for the midday meal . |
| 9 | Early on May 29th in Solingen , say the police , young neo-Nazis set fire to the house where the Genc family lived . |
| 10 | The Guatemalan security forces set fire to the building and he was incinerated , along with 30 of his campesino colleagues . |
| 11 | When the adventurers set foot on the stairs , each is allowed a WP test ( Magic Sense +10 ) to sense that some form of magical trap exists . |
| 12 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |