Example sentences of "setting [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britten discovered early that the very act of setting words to music involves stylisation . |
| 2 | ‘ You have lost no time in setting things to rights , I see , ’ she said in a carefully neutral tone . |
| 3 | Scotland has led the way in setting limits to waiting-times for operations and will now be reducing these further . |
| 4 | The interview schedule or questionnaire mean that the researcher is setting limits to what the respondent can say . |
| 5 | The former contradiction , which Marx describes as ‘ the fundamental contradiction of developed capitalism ’ , is one between the social character of production , with its tendency towards unlimited development of the productive forces , and the private ownership of the means of production ( and therefore private appropriation of the product ) from which derives the aim of maintaining and increasing the value of capital itself , and hence setting limits to the expansion of production . |
| 6 | Iraqi forces were " wantonly setting fires to and destroying the oil wells , the oil tanks , the export terminals and other installations of that small country " , stated Bush . |