Example sentences of "and set a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State paved the way for the greening of all Whitehall departments through a White Paper to be published next year and set a target on the recycling of household waste . |
| 2 | In 1954 Carroll Shelby and Donald Healey went record breaking together at Bonneville and set a string of records with various versions of Healey 's 100 and 100S sports cars . |
| 3 | Forston Asylum was one of the most advanced in the country and set a new example . |
| 4 | Baptists began raising a Sustentation Fund in 1908 and set a minimum salary of £160 in 1912 . |
| 5 | FIFTEEN steps to be implemented within a month of taking office in order to reverse the Conservative health reforms and set a new direction for the NHS were outlined by Labour yesterday . |
| 6 | In view of this , and to settle the negotiations as soon as possible , I suggest we ignore the principle of a rising royalty and set a flat rate of 7% of our receipts on all three titles involved . |
| 7 | In the end it was a bitter-sweet victory , as although he broke several British records at intermediate distances , and set a new British all-comers record , he missed breaking the British 6-day record of 623 miles , set by George Littlewood at Madison Square Garden in 1888 ! |
| 8 | The following six points form the essentials of funboard sailing and set a good funboard sailor apart from a bad one . |
| 9 | Clemens was not happy at his supersession and set a crowd of ruffians to make Glynn 's position untenable . |
| 10 | TYPE in the text of Task 19 and set a new page width of 12.5″ to increase the typing line to 10″ |
| 11 | Konrad showed his young helpers how to make a simple thermometer , illustrate the Davy lamp principle with a kitchen sieve ; and set a warm , upturned wine glass gliding across a smooth surface like a miniature hovercraft . |
| 12 | To overcome this problem , after long-netting the main wood two of us would walk behind the rabbits and set a net along the small wood . |
| 13 | A sensible Genoese colony , however stiff-necked , might therefore meet over its ass-bones and set a date for surrender , you 'd hope . |
| 14 | Under the new Dangerous Dogs Act , Cleo could have been put down , but the court accepted her owner 's plea that she had been deliberately and maliciously let out of a shed , and set a new precedent by allowing the dog to go back to her family . |
| 15 | Then she cooked pasta and shredded chicken and chopped fruit and nuts and sliced black bread and made beetroot soup and prepared sour cream and a cheese board and polished wine glasses and put butter in lemon-coloured dishes and made salad dressings and laid the table and set a serviette decorated with a Groucho Marx face by the side of each place . |
| 16 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They took-off at 4.47am , well before dawn , and set a compass course of 282° for the western end of the island of Timor , allowing 4° magnetic variation and 1° of drift . |
| 19 | It transformed the way that the English dealt with the world outside Europe ; even though Charles 's son came back to the throne as Charles II in 1660 , the Republic changed the direction of English imperial policy and set a pattern followed at least until the death in 1714 of the last direct descendant of Charles I to sit on the throne . |
| 20 | It was the influx of these outstanding scholars that made the Warburg an internationally renowned research institute and set a pattern for the future . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I shake my head and set a course for the car park . |
| 23 | And set a great precedent . ’ |
| 24 | He threw out his hands again and set a grin through clenched teeth on his burning face . |
| 25 | As a student he broke the Scottish records for the 100 and 200 yards , and set a new record for the inter-universities 440 yards ( 50.2 seconds ) . |
| 26 | She slid in and around the one who was dressing , and set a couple of coffees down in what limited space she could see on the table . |
| 27 | The second Act required every maintained school to have a governing body , and set a formula for the numbers of parent , voluntary body and LEA representatives , which depended on the type and size of the school . |
| 28 | I certainly agree with my hon. Friend that we need to pursue those who do not pay the community charge and , in particular , we should pursue those Members of the House who do not pay the community charge and set a bad example to everyone else . |
| 29 | Fogarty won both Superbike races , and set a new absolute course record round the Portrush triangle circuit in the shortened North West 200 race . |
| 30 | In a surprise move on Jan. 17 Judge Hoeveler stated that he wanted to bring the Noriega case to trial " very quickly " , and set a trial date for March 5 . |