Example sentences of "[noun sg] set the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It allows your enemy to set the terms of the debate . |
| 2 | If you 've been thinking of making domestic changes or improvements , but lacked the money or momentum to set the wheels of change in motion use today to make a start . |
| 3 | Since the keyboard instrument sets the tone of the entire performance in a Mozart Trio , this tips the scale in favour of the Mozarteans , even without their price advantage . |
| 4 | Climb onto a platform and your weight sets the contraption in motion the deck rides up and down simulating ocean swells , the soundtrack plays the moans of whale songs , and a film projection shows an opening and closing hand that approaches and recedes in wavelike sequence on the now-rotating screens . |
| 5 | The second part of the chapter sets the concept of poverty within the gendered organisation of family life . |
| 6 | The chapter sets the tenor for the whole work in so far as it tries to examine the social conditions under which blacks became involved in sport , first in the USA and then in Great Britain . |
| 7 | The type of soil and quality of light set the parameters for every plan . |
| 8 | The producers cartel set the quotas in an attempt to prevent over-supply of the fuel causing a price slump when demand falls with the onset of warmer weather . |
| 9 | The relative stability in the north that followed Barbarossa 's defeat set the stage for the next step in the rise of the city states . |
| 10 | Very clearly , the Prime Minister saw the speech as an opportunity to set the agenda for an extended public discussion of educational issues . |
| 11 | To that end this meeting will bring together the most prominent scholars in the field to set the agenda for the future direction of cultural studies . |
| 12 | It is a good plan to set the scene of the case ( e.g . |
| 13 | Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the . |
| 14 | A DETERMINATION TO SET THE STANDARDS FOR OUR INDUSTRY . |
| 15 | The Council sets the level of Council Tax and Water Charge for a Band D property and charges for each other band are in accordance with the prescribed formula set out by the Government . |
| 16 | CHARLES and Diana 's separation sets the seal on a long line of Windsor marital disasters . |
| 17 | COMMENT the editor sets the world to rights |
| 18 | Reasoning that a circle has 360 degrees , MacArthur let geometry set the basis of Japan 's international trade . |
| 19 | Salvo Lima had been Mayor of Palermo in the building boom of the Fifties and Sixties , when the Mafia set the rules of many public contracts . |
| 20 | The broad gauge set the standard for developments for half a century , largely because the greater stability permitted higher speeds than were then possible on the narrow gauge and hence led to engineering advances that would make such speeds possible , eventually in the narrow gauge as well . |
| 21 | This Act set the date in the summer term after which children aged 16 are no longer required to attend school . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But this is to allow the opponent to set the terms for debate , accepting assumptions that feminists ought perhaps to question ( for example , that women should be treated equally only to the extent that they resemble men ) and thus conceding a vital part of the argument . |
| 24 | The EPLP is ideally placed to work alongside other Parliamentary groups in the Community to set the agenda for Europe and for its people . |
| 25 | The program runs continuously in ‘ film mode ’ but at the beginning the teacher sets the level of difficulty and the time-delay before the correct answer appears ; a sequence of randomly generated fractions follows . |
| 26 | With both the motive for the murder and the brave rescue Crime and Punishment sets the pattern for later Dostoevsky ; his post-Siberian notebooks swarm with admonitions like ‘ Decide the matter definitely one way or the other ’ , and with the X marks the spot of ‘ Here a podvig is achieved ’ ; and in the other novels , as in Crime and Punishment , the actual outcome of such promptings makes an interesting study . |
| 27 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 28 | Often when talking with the girls she had noticed that whenever Moran entered the room silence and deadness would fall on them ; and if he was eating alone or working in the room setting the teeth of a saw , putting a handle in a broken spade on a wet day , taking apart the lighting plant that never seemed to run properly for long — they always tried to slip away . |
| 29 | Both in its reformist tendencies and in its underlying conservatism , the conference set the tone for France 's postwar colonial policy . |
| 30 | G.W. Davidson , ably assisted by Mrs R. Wilson and her husband set the scheme in motion by distributing leaflets to all the houses in Belmont Road and all the roads leading off it . |