Example sentences of "would set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another new instrument that the Commission will be considering next year is a revised draft of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture , which would set up an international system of visits to places of detention , aimed at preventing torture and ill-treatment . |
| 2 | The ecology people were still mailing all sorts of publications to her , and her mouth would set hard with pain when she read Lucy 's name in a list of credits or committee members . |
| 3 | It would set a central rate for sterling against the European Currency Unit . |
| 4 | Turning to the White Paper , to be published before the next party conference , he said it would set out the Conservatives ' agenda for the rest of this century . |
| 5 | In 1954 I was eight and every Saturday morning I would set off to the movies with my first boyfriend , ten year old Skippy . |
| 6 | On a good day , eggs in their pockets , they would set off knowing the silver screen was theirs . |
| 7 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 8 | The Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , said the new green bill would set in place the most sophisticated and comprehensive pollution control regulations anywhere . |
| 9 | Last year , when the constitutional ban on forced purchase expired , Mr Mugabe promised to buy up half the remaining white farmland at prices he would set . |
| 10 | Chemical warfare would set in with appalling ferocity , leaving the sward slimy with dead worms . |
| 11 | Philip wondered again about the ambush , but he did n't look the kind that would set up something . |
| 12 | A few weeks of this would set him up . |
| 13 | ‘ I know just how I would set about it . |
| 14 | A Chanel designer puffa jacket would set you back £1,300 , a Hermes one £1,040 . |
| 15 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 16 | ‘ In the false name of justice and equality , the Labour faction would set the classes against each other and overturn the immemorial dispensation of ‘ a place for every man and every man in his place ’ . |
| 17 | He said their proposed tax-raising parliament in Scotland would set the country on the road to bitterness , conflict and separation . |
| 18 | Last week , Mr Kinnock said an incoming Labour Government would set up a formal inquiry into PR . |
| 19 | Labour proposes an Education Standards Commission ; both parties would set up a General Teaching Council . |
| 20 | Should he make it three out of four , that would set a record unmatched even by Jack Nicklaus , despite his six victories between 1963 and 1986 . |
| 21 | Another aspect of the proposal was that Glaxo would set up a research centre and co-market Imigran with a French company . |
| 22 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 23 | He hanked the head of the spinnaker to the spare forehalyard so that the sail would set outside the jib . |
| 24 | The enormous park was a source of delight to most visitors — though not all — for sometimes the Empress , an indefatigable walker , would set off with a group of people to tramp through the grounds , occasionally going part of the way in a carriage . |
| 25 | His old classmate , Gil Kenny , who later became a local police chief , said no one thought Jack would set the world alight . |
| 26 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 27 | Liza burned her tongue , testing whether it would set or not , and being too greedy to taste or anxious to please . |
| 28 | Archbishop William Temple when headmaster of Repton had a complete mental recall of Bradshaw and would set as an imposition for an errant boy the best way of travelling from Great Yarmouth to Exeter or Penrith to Ipswich without touching London , complete with changes and times . |
| 29 | It would set you on your way . ’ |
| 30 | According to Cowles , the plan was that Stirling and his crew would set up an ambush on the road , which intelligence had informed him was being used by a stream of enemy traffic . |