Example sentences of "[be] [verb] set the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This interview had been granted to set the record straight .
2 The initial requirement is a tension square in your own choice of yarn and stitch pattern and the stitches and rows are used to set the Knitleader to work to the appropriate measurements .
3 Branagh 's version retains a Chorus — Derek Jacobi in voice-over or in twentieth-century mufti ( greatcoat and scarf ) , sometimes even sharing the frame with the action — though arguably the camera can be trusted to set the scene unaided .
4 The right video material can do this in a range of ways : its vivid presentation of settings and characters can be used to set the scene for roleplay ; it can present a case with such impact that it sparks off fierce debate ; we all make our own interpretations of what we see and so video can be a stimulus to genuine communication in the classroom by bringing out different opinions within the group .
5 This may be used to set the voltage at pin 6 , with pin 4 connected to 0V .
6 Here the idle-up facility will be used to set the model up for aerobatics and the normal throttle action used for general flying .
7 Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings .
8 In particular , care should be taken to set the condenser correctly — this is probably the single greatest cause of poor results in microscopy .
9 The input is adjusted to set the output some standard level ( such as the rated output power ) .
10 Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard .
11 If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene .
12 The value of T g is raised markedly by inserting groups which stiffen the chain by impeding rotation , so that more thermal energy is required to set the chain in motion .
13 In the UK auditors are required to set the materiality level by reference to each individual limited company in a group .
14 It would seem , therefore , that Bukharin was attempting to set the drive for industrialisation within the wider socio-political framework of the worker-peasant alliance upon which NEP was founded , rather than within merely narrow ‘ economic ’ guidelines .
15 What he said at the Tory Party Conference last year was that he was going to set the agenda ; the environmental agenda for the nineties .
16 None of the three papers was going to set the world on fire .
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