Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , during 1943–44 Albert played in every outfield position at least once and he still scored goals that set the fans ' interest alight .
2 Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had .
3 Ramblin' Jeff hooks you in with the opening ‘ Goin' Down ’ , a cover of a Don Nix song that lurches drunkenly out of the speakers and sets the mood for the rest of the record .
4 A new control panel provides a Mac-like configuration tool for Tenon 's Unix , which can be used to schedule work between Macintosh and Unix processors , reconfigure the network and network servers and set the number of available buffers for Unix data caching .
5 Upstairs Downstairs , World at War , Edward VII ( in the 1970s ) ; Brideshead Revisited , Jewel in the Crown ( 1980s ) — all were ITV programmes that set the elitists purring .
6 These presentations are referred to as pseudoisochromatic or confusion plates and set a task in which the normal eye can discriminate figures composed of coloured dots , whilst the eye with abnormal colour vision can not do so .
7 Fed up with male drunkenness , local women held anti-booze demonstrations , then stormed bars and shops that sell arrack — a fiery spirit , popular in India — breaking bottles and setting the stuff ablaze .
8 And of course the sun caught the bottles and set the fire to the undergrowth of the grass do you see .
9 Federation officials had been concerned that the scheme , part of the proposed £1 million Citywatch crime prevention campaign for the city , would cut across traditional police duties and set a precedent for a privatised police force .
10 Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm .
11 Mainframes were bought by Data Processing Managers in the olden days ; IBM could call the tunes and set the standards .
12 It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect .
13 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the MODULE DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
14 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the MODULE DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
15 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the MODULE DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
16 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the USER DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
17 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the USER DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
18 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the USER DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
19 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the USER DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
20 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the DC DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
21 Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the DC DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL .
22 The responsible manager must ensure that his company is greener than green on all the major issues according to current opinion , demonstrate to the world at large that this is so , and , for the future , to help form opinions and set the standards for the company 's own as well as the common good .
23 It was more like a personal appearance by a pop star … just a glimpse of Desert Orchid was enough to draw the crowds and set the cameras clicking.But after all , this was the horse with his own fanclub.And he has created a few records.Between 1983 and 1991 Dezi won 34 steeplechases , picking up half a million pounds in prize money into the bargain.Now he 's retired … and enjoying the fame :
24 J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) .
25 Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA .
26 The Government now intends to draw up its own inventory of local needs and set a contribution to the local authority that will allow for the provision of those minimum needs in year one .
27 This is because the greatest melody-writers belong to past epochs and set an example which modern composers can hardly match .
28 He was held in respect by some of the participants Who had confidence in his ability to correct many of the injustices and set the country on the path to substantial reform in all areas .
29 What Miandad 's 59 did yesterday was to frustrate England 's struggling bowlers and to set a platform from which Pakistan can give themselves a match-winning lead today .
30 For only on foot does one detect the subtle rise and fall of ground to which the earliest settlers were so sensitive , or alignments in the town scene that may throw light on some fundamental change of plan : or the names of streets and lanes that set the mind working at once .
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