Example sentences of "set [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is our task , as Liberal Democrats , to set our sails to the new winds which will blow through the nineties ; to establish the new frontier between individual choice and collective responsibility . ’ |
| 2 | Now I could set my sights on the European Championships in Stuttgart . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the rule-makers can set their faces against the pressures for change . |
| 4 | When functionalists attempt to explain systems of social stratification , they set their explanations in the framework of larger theories which seek to explain the operation of society as a whole . |
| 5 | Bartram then told Miller about his method of collecting specimens of pines ; when they are in flower and the young cone just impregnated , and asked whether European pines set their cones on the same spring 's shoot , ‘ or the second year 's wood , as by your draught , the Scotch Pine doth ? ’ |
| 6 | Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane . |
| 7 | Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane . |
| 8 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 9 | John Alexander helps you set your eyes on the right |
| 10 | Imagine that firms have set their prices at the end of period 0 to give a price level of P in periods 1 and 2 . |
| 11 | Once they had set their feet on the path they tumbled down bold and bouncy as puppies . |
| 12 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 13 | The sickening way in which Achilles sets his Myrmidons on the unarmed Hector , and then tells them to ‘ cry you all amain , ‘ Achilles has the might Hector slain ’ ’ shows that the morality of the Greeks is equally detestable . |
| 14 | We are setting ourselves targets for the time we take to make decisions on papers submitted to us and then to publish the papers . |
| 15 | ALTHOUGH Ville de Paris and Nippon have been eliminated after the final races of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals , they are both already setting their sights on the 1995 Cup . |
| 16 | Setting his sights on the lucrative prizes up for grabs in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines sponsored event is classy Kenyan Jimmy Muindi , the current World Junior steeplechase champion . |
| 17 | At this stage , while setting your goals for the whole dieting period , use another graph to plot out your weight at the end of each month . |
| 18 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 19 | Having set our investment in bricks and mortar , we 're now setting our sights on the future . |
| 20 | I 'd like to meet the chap as set them tombstones round the wall . |
| 21 | They left the Rorim and set their faces towards the hills . |
| 22 | In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s . |
| 23 | Notice that workers who set their wages at the end of even periods believed , in the even period t - 1 , that the price level in odd period t would remain unchanged in period t + 1 . |
| 24 | Similarly , we assume that workers who set their wages at the end of odd periods believed , in the odd period t - 2 , that the price level would be the same in periods t - 1 and t . |
| 25 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 26 | The Reform Committee set its sights on the quarterly meeting later that month . |
| 27 | She set her things round the monastic student bedroom . |
| 28 | After sailing through her Bronze and Silver Awards , Fiona set her sights on the Gold . |
| 29 | She set her sights on the city and pushed herself painfully on . |
| 30 | He lightly set his feet on the stone buttocks and sprang across , and , seized by some eccentric whim in mid air , raised his black p.v.c. arms and flapped them , cawing like a crow . |