Example sentences of "set [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same arguments are endlessly rehearsed in terms of the Government 's determination to continue to set its face against the social chapter of the Maastricht agreement already accepted by all its European partners . |
| 2 | Navratilova had watched in awe as Evert opened up the rain-delayed Federation Cup semi-final between the United States and Czechoslovakia to set her team on the way to a 2-0 victory . |
| 3 | Marlowe chooses to set his fantasy in the month of May and it will always , therefore , be springtime , the most romantic time of the year . |
| 4 | Does the hon. Gentleman really want to set his face against the improvements that trust status could deliver ? |
| 5 | It 's probably better to set your mind to the possibility that you may not get what you want that quickly this year — which does n't mean you wo n't get it ever . |
| 6 | ‘ I do set my bow in the cloud , and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth . |
| 7 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 8 | I would set my face against the casualisation of the Corporation . |
| 9 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 10 | I set my bow in the cloud . |
| 11 | I waited three days for the sun to come out but to no avail , so on a very grey , cloudy day I set my easel by the French doors , put my paints and brushes on a high stool next to me and started . |
| 12 | Besides , I set my tale in the last century and not today , because that is a convention which readers like . ’ |
| 13 | The excellent accompanying essays set their work within the context of European landscape painting and provide general overviews of their careers . |
| 14 | It might surprise us to find such superstitious attitudes in modern society ( though of course , conservatives set their face to the past ) . |
| 15 | Anyone can set his newspaper in the New York Times lettering style without paying the Times a nickle . |
| 16 | They thought that he would be committed to tough reform of the welfare laws , that he would set his face against the racial balkanisation of America , that he would support free trade and eschew the idea that great dollops of federal money would revive the economy . |
| 17 | It is a fitting conclusion that God , who has so clearly guided at every stage , should set his seal on the marriage in the deep love of Isaac for Rebekah . |
| 18 | You could set your back against the roughened old trunk , plant your feet securely on the wide bough and gaze out undisturbed over the great surges of greenery . |
| 19 | It is a shame that the local Labour Party , these are the editor 's words , not mine , it is a shame that the local Labour Party has set its face against the scheme . |
| 20 | Since the Government first introduced road humps in 1981 , traffic engineers in too many councils have shown naked hostility to the idea of traffic calming and have completely set their face against the idea of road humps . |
| 21 | On the other hand she had set her hand to the plough . |
| 22 | But if Hunt had now set his mark on the F1 scene and matured , at Team Hesketh matters were quite different . |
| 23 | Mr Crump had just set his watch by the Winster long case clock when ‘ Your servant , sir , ’ and Alexander Augustus Hope , Colonel , M.P . |
| 24 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 25 | Glendinning sets her analysis into the context of wider socio-economic and demographic trends , concluding that the central issue for policy makers is the provision of an independent income for carers . |
| 26 | Robarchek ( this volume ) sets his discussion of the Semai within the frame of what he argues has become a ‘ sterile dichotomy in Western thought ’ as a direct result of the ideas of these two philosophers . |
| 27 | I do n't live my life looking up to other people , setting my life on the example of others , yeah fair enough |
| 28 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 29 | Evelyn quickened her step , setting her face against the slanting rain . |
| 30 | Huge pages underlined the scarceness of resources , and hot metal setting its distance from the offset litho of It , let alone the colour and verve of Oz . |