Example sentences of "set [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 2 | Is it to set the general atmosphere and mood as Stravinsky did for The Firebird Mysterious sounds of the wind whispering in the trees , the soaring flight of a bird and the heavy tread of an unseen foot are still a wonderful introduction to this magic tale . |
| 3 | More usually , but no less spectacularly , the view is over the city and a visit to the roof offers a good opportunity to set the internal map and compass ready for walks of exploration . |
| 4 | The firms with the best teams — analysts , jobbers , corporate lawyers , financial PR men , whatever — those were the firms who were going to set the going rate and get it . |
| 5 | Price mechanism can be structured from cost-effective analysis to enable us to set a reasonable charge that will ensure profitability . |
| 6 | To offer the best was to set a general standard and to create a wider public expectation . |
| 7 | One does n't want to set a public hue and cry in train after a perfectly rational and responsible person who knows very well what he 's about . ’ |
| 8 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 9 | I hope that the Government do not intend to set a national figure that will apply throughout the country . |
| 10 | I was told : ‘ Set the right angle and then leave it , do not disturb it . ’ |
| 11 | If you set the right standards and she knows that she ca n't fool you , you 'll be all right . |
| 12 | Set the bloody swords and sweating steed ; |
| 13 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 14 | The majority in the State Council feared that these proposals would set a damaging precedent and , with the consent of the Tsar , rejected the bill . |
| 15 | Such increases set a bad example and I hope that managers in the private and public sectors will remember that the setting of pay for those who are high on the ladder affects the willingness of people further down the ladder to respond sensibly . |
| 16 | The Society in consultation with the Regional Representatives has set the national priorities as being : — |
| 17 | Automated mechatons have already set a temporary patch and seal . |
| 18 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 19 | Nudes news : Women are upset by female nudity in films because it sets an impossible standard but think there should be more male nudes on screen , according to a Glamour magazine survey . |
| 20 | This is a vindictive and intolerant motion it sets an unfortunate precedent and in this debate about freedom we should support the rights of our tenants to choose . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is absolutely right to refer to the Government 's role in setting the right climate and environment and providing the right services for industry . |
| 22 | Another feature of Party activity in Roslavl' and Smolensk reflected in microcosm top-level efforts in Moscow to divide and rule by setting the Living Church and other sects against the official Orthodox Church . |
| 23 | THE Securities and Investments Board should relinquish its ‘ command and control ’ approach and concentrate on setting the regulatory framework and objectives , an influential report on the costs and effectiveness of UK financial regulation said yesterday , writes Ian Harper . |
| 24 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 25 | With a corporation that is in trouble a lot of actions might make things worse so the natural tendency is to try to escape from the present troubles by setting a specific objective and moving towards that . |
| 26 | If breakfast is a cut-and-run meal then a bar counter is a good idea and a nice compromise between setting a proper table and snatching a cup of coffee on the wing . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the Secretary of State for the Environment is empowered to ‘ charge cap ’ local authorities , either by setting a universal limit or by singling out those authorities whose levels of Community Charge he or she considers excessive . |
| 28 | Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer . |
| 29 | When the full force of competition hits , it is desperately hard to recover your company , set the new tempo that is required , and seize the initiative back from the . |
| 30 | Equations ( 6.18a ) and ( 6.18b ) set a variational problem that is solved in the standard way in Appendix A. It is shown in Appendix A that eqn ( 6.18 ) is the integral form of the geodesic equation , and is entirely equivalent to the differential form of eqn ( 6.8 ) . |