Example sentences of "set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the Governments " minute of appointment " in 1961 set as the Committee 's terms of reference to report on and review the pattern of full-time higher education in Britain " in the light of national needs and resources " . |
| 2 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 3 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 4 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 5 | Founder member of the National Aeronautical Collection , the Cody Biplane set against the excellent World War One era supporting display . |
| 6 | Villa Greta set against the cliffs |
| 7 | So the dual role of any human being as a producer and consumer is torn apart , with one set against the other . |
| 8 | There is indeed a large plaque commemorating Henry James ( and , it should not be forgotten , a more recent small one to the memory of E. F. Benson and his brother ! ) set into the garden wall , but this wall in no way attempts to reproduce the elegant lost façade of the Garden Room . |
| 9 | So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out . |
| 10 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |
| 11 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 12 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 13 | When deflation set in the previous gains were wiped out and more . |
| 14 | I once lost a whole Bronica set in the Maldives while in only two feet of sea — but that is another story . |
| 15 | Take a leisurely cruise around Southern Water 's beautiful reservoir at Lamberhurst near Tunbridge Wells , the largest area of inland water in south east England set in the most attractive countryside . |
| 16 | Cetinale set in the countryside |
| 17 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 18 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Skilfully detailed miniature landscapes , including working trains of the 1930s set in the wilds of Dartmoor and farms and cottages grouped in a typical village from the Vale of White Horse . |
| 20 | She went across , ostensibly to study the Stanley Spencer set in the overmantel of the fireplace , and asked lightly : |
| 21 | That is over a metre beyond his previous best , also set in the Victorian capital . |
| 22 | He orchestrated a number of other shows , including in 1976 Fire Angel , a version of Shakespeare 's Merchant of Venice set in the New York underworld . |
| 23 | Quite often the moon as the earth moves as the earth rotates the moon appears to rise and set in the sky . |
| 24 | Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts . |
| 25 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 26 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
| 27 | Muttering beneath her breath she set to the preparation of the tall boy 's breakfast . |
| 28 | When he presented a new Kwik-Cricket set to the Barbadian Secretary of State for Education , the minister promptly moved desks , bookshelves and even delayed leaving for a cabinet meeting so that he could play the game in his office . |
| 29 | He usually came in the middle of the day , pushing something ahead of him which he set by the side of the benches before taking some food out of a box . |
| 30 | From the outset , Nigeria and Iran sought quota improvements and in the late 1980s there arose some aggrieved discussion of the UAE 's insistence on setting its own unilateral quota ( 1.5 million as against the 0.948 set by the Vienna conference in 1987 ) and vehement debate with both Iraq and Iran , neither of which was willing to accept a lower quota than the other 's . |