Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALL Street moved further into record-breaking territory yesterday , continuing a recent run which has set the scene for sharp rallies in Tokyo and Hong Kong . |
| 2 | Against this undoubted benefit one has to set the likely bad consequences of recognizing the general and unqualified validity of consent to political authority . |
| 3 | Such delays do not help the plaintiff who wants to set the record straight , but they are equally unpleasant for defendants , who face escalating costs and witness difficulties . |
| 4 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 5 | The previous day she had set a new world record in the preliminaries . |
| 6 | Against this rather scanty evidence we have to set the 5 patients probably infected from an HIV-infected dentist . |
| 7 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 8 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 9 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the Conservative Party itself helped set the tone for library disposals and helped not a little towards the rise of semi-literacy and , when controversy did arise , its political acceptability . |
| 11 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 12 | ‘ Then each time he fails to set the machine properly , you give him a proper warning . |