Example sentences of "set [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 2 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 3 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 4 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 5 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 6 | Set him on the right path with a good education . |
| 7 | Still , set it beside the earliest of the quotations , from the Webbs ' A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain , dating from 1920 , and we can see how far the Empirical Socialist view had changed . |
| 8 | If I set it to the same frequency as the only Mark I Super C64 in existence , I might just be able to contact an old friend of ours . ’ |
| 9 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 10 | His dinner was l sitting under the grill , I lift it out , set it on the fucking table , and I says I 'm away in here to waken |
| 11 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 12 | Go around the group and have everybody in turn explain a particular example of their coping , or the task they set themselves during the preceding week . |
| 13 | She 'll set us on the right track . ’ |
| 14 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 15 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 16 | When the propeller is on you open and close your throttle to check it works before setting it to the correct position . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged . |
| 18 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |
| 19 | This one man set himself above the bloody incident in the snow and the yelping sound of the siren . |
| 20 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 21 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 22 | But those who choose violence set themselves on the opposing side from democracy . |
| 23 | Eventually arrived at hotel in Marinna de Ravenna , to be met by a complimentary bottle of Champagne and this set us off the next day , on a full tank ! |