Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have to admit that with the exception of the quick GTi and certainly the new 2.8-litre VR6 , the latest Golf is not the kind of car to set the pulses racing . |
| 2 | The type of soil and quality of light set the parameters for every plan . |
| 3 | Earlier this month , the Department of Environment set a date for the public inquiry to commence on October 26 at a venue to be fixed in Liverpool . |
| 4 | In the case of television sets the wheel has turned full circle , from intensive distribution to selective distribution ( for the reasons just mentioned ) and back to intensive distribution . |
| 5 | Am I the sort of man to set a child spying ? |
| 6 | His early choice of subject set the tone for his later work — — Goya 's Queen Maria Luisa , and Velázquez 's portrait of the dwarf Francisco Lezcano ( Fig. 3 ) — in other words , great Spanish artists ' handling of their arrogant , ugly , bizarre or idiotic sitters . |
| 7 | Therefore it must necessarily be irrational , i.e. ‘ Wednesbury unreasonable ’ for the Secretary of State to set a tariff period longer than that recommended by the judiciary . |
| 8 | ( iv ) If a discretionary life sentence is passed , the minister of state sets the date for the first review strictly in accordance with the views of the judiciary , thus following the decision in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , and Mr. Hurd 's 1987 statement . |
| 9 | It is convenient to consider the third and fourth issues together : has the prisoner the right to make representations before the Secretary of State sets the date for the first review , and has he a right to be told the judicial view of his tariff ? |
| 10 | I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence . |
| 11 | Will the Secretary of State set an example to his Israeli friends and recognise the Palestine Liberation Organisation as a Government in exile ? |
| 12 | Young or old , going out or staying home for the evening , a glass of Scotch sets the scene , complements the mood , ensures complete enjoyment … never intrusive , always compatible … |
| 13 | As we have seen , the legacies of childhood set the pattern for the way in which we interpret and live our adult lives . |
| 14 | Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , sitting with Lord Justices Nourse and Russell , yesterday reserved their judgment after Private Eye had rejected an offer from Mrs Sutcliffe to allow the Court of Appeal to set the amount of damages . |
| 15 | Management was under pressure to set an example on pay restraint and increases were now being linked more closely to performance , Hay said . |
| 16 | That was the year that was : 1986 , and Jon Solly ( main pic ) takes the Commonwealth 10,000m title , above left sets a 3000m pb of 7:50.20 at Crystal Palace … and a 5000m best of 13:22.39 in Helsinki |
| 17 | In one area American Teetotalism then affected the English movement which in turn set an example for Nonconformity as a whole . |
| 18 | This is because his opponents in Congress set the rules and can change them whenever they want ; Congress amended the constitution more than 300 times during 1992 . |
| 19 | The only real difference was that when the weather was favourable we arrived at the site one hour before dawn to set the nets . |
| 20 | In his New Year message to the nation , broadcast on national radio and television on Dec. 31 , Sassou-Nguesso announced that a " national conference " would be convened on Feb. 25 , 1991 , in order to set a date for multiparty elections . |
| 21 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 22 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 23 | In order to set the scene , figure 7.1 shows that average household size has fallen over the past century . |
| 24 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 25 | I picture the old man hopping and pacing to his cottage , finding the paper , finding the passage , transcribing it , bobbing back to the club and slipping the note under my door , in order to set the record straight ; I find myself close to tears . |
| 26 | In order to set the bonus targets it is necessary to establish the quantity of work to be done , the method of construction , and the calculation of the relevant man hours necessary to complete the task . |
| 27 | So it 's either setting or not setting the weights and in the N tuple rule all we do is in fact set the weights . |
| 28 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |
| 29 | The Fund does not at present set a residency requirement , so few if any arguments are left for keeping Flemish bees away from the Dutch honey pot . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock 's job at conference must be to demonstrate Labour 's electability by confirming the party 's new revisionism , by reassuring voters on issues where there is still doubt and , above all , by helping set the agenda for the 1990s . |