Example sentences of "they set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 2 | Massively symbolized by the uniform itself , as Douglas ( 1973 : 16 ) indicates , this obsession tends to focus on the body , for ‘ the more value people set on social constraints , the more value they set on symbols of bodily control ’ . |
| 3 | Instead of measuring the proportion of radiocarbon indirectly by detecting radiation , they set on quantifying the number of carbon-14 atoms in a given specimen . |
| 4 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 5 | Teachers will find that the educational goals which they set for their visually handicapped pupils are essentially the same as for the fully sighted children in their classes and that these goals are attainable . |
| 6 | They thus need only provide care to quality standards which they set for themselves when first agreeing a contract and they can avoid being drawn into the ‘ high volume/doubtful quality ’ trap . |
| 7 | Management at the Redworth Hall hotel and country club near Darlington say they set for a record breaking year by using an aggressive marketing campaign . |
| 8 | They set to sea in boats and cruisers ; one newspaper even hired a Lear jet , which flew over the area day after day . |
| 9 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 10 | ‘ Apple pie , ’ he said , and they set to work . |
| 11 | Back in France , they set to work . |
| 12 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 13 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 14 | Energetic — and friendly whenever they came across her and Thomas — they set to work clearing it . |
| 15 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 16 | At the auberge , they set before me a beautiful soup with dumplings in it , followed by a great white sausage on a small alp of potato and onion-rings . |