Example sentences of "set [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are ‘ low ’ standards compared to those of many other housewives in the sample , and the routine is there , but it is not anchored nearly so securely to set times of the day as Barbara Lipscombe 's . |
| 2 | As such , care programming can be seen as an attempt to standardize mental health service delivery and to set norms for the administration of care for people with a certain level of dependency . |
| 3 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 4 | She could n't eat , could n't concentrate on her work , could n't do anything except wander round and round the drawing-room , frightened to set foot outside the door in case she bumped straight into Julius . |
| 5 | ‘ That I was n't meant to set foot outside the house and grounds ? ’ |
| 6 | Deacon Palmer was a golf professional-cum-greenkeeper at Latrobe , near Pittsburgh , and he would never presume to set foot inside the clubhouse unless specifically invited by a member . |
| 7 | " They are good women " , Martha said , " but I 'm not going to set foot in the place while that 's going on . |
| 8 | To set light to the straw the team were using a mixture of petrol and spirits . |
| 9 | Council tenants also receive an indirect subsidy as a result of the central government grants to local authorities for housing which enable them to set rents below the level that would otherwise have been needed . |
| 10 | using this understanding to critically examine current activities and go on to set targets for the future . |
| 11 | It is prudent for negotiators to set objectives during the preparation stage . |
| 12 | Once the role of the advertising has been defined , it becomes reasonably straightforward to set objectives for the advertising , which will usually be rather more specific interpretations of the role statement , including where possible specific targets , measurable by specific research . |
| 13 | Describe why it is important to set objectives in the firm and comment on the problems of setting objectives . |
| 14 | To take a concrete example , an established characteristic of the pricing decision across many Western economies over several decades has been the tendency for firms , particularly firms in the manufacturing sector , to set prices as a mark up over variable costs , the most prominent among which is the money wage . |
| 15 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 16 | As a leading article in The Times put it : ‘ Undaunted by the superior timidity of the House of Lords the Court of Appeal persevered in its determination to set limits to the scope of the immunities granted to trade unions by statute . ’ |
| 17 | The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs . |
| 18 | Yet in its turn climate goes far to set limits to the use that can be made of the physical features of the country in which we live . |
| 19 | Delegates at the UN in Geneva had hoped to set standards for every aspect of environment and development . |
| 20 | You may also need to set jumpers on the motherboard according to the type of RAM devices you are using and the video card . |
| 21 | They were the ones nipping in and out of the general ruck , tapping ankles , trying to spray-paint out the windows and one of them even trying to set fire to a bunch of leaflets stuffed through Naamen 's letter-box . |
| 22 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 23 | THE owner of a derelict boarding house was accused yesterday of killing a friend who had allegedly helped him to set fire to the building in an ‘ insurance job ’ . |
| 24 | To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq . |
| 25 | ‘ He clearly knew he was going to set fire to the flat . |
| 26 | By the time the work had finished two internal walls had been completely destroyed and Crook took the decision to set fire to the flat in the hope Langbaurgh Council , which owns the block , might rehouse him . |
| 27 | Surely no one would be so wicked as to set fire to the place ? ’ |
| 28 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 29 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 30 | Her duty is like the duty not to set fire to the forest which entails the duty to put out any fire one started . |