Example sentences of "set [noun pl] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the project manager 's task to define the key results areas , to set priorities for the contributions and to ensure that they are adhered to . |
| 2 | As we have seen ( Chapter 2 ) , it is not the ideal way to start , but it is a fact of life , and the size of the budget does , to a significant extent , serve to set limits on the opportunities open to the media planner . |
| 3 | The women are also warned by the men that if they , the women , should set eyes on the masks of the ceremony , the men would manhandle , rape , and disfigure them . |
| 4 | Eventually all is set for Culkin , now holed up in his uncle 's deserted townhouse , to wire the rooms , set traps on the stairs , gather inflammable materials and treat Pesci and Stern to a far more violent onslaught than was executed in Home Alone 1 . |
| 5 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 6 | In an agricultural society poor soil conditions , often the consequence of centuries of abusive cultivation , together with the amount and nature of the rainfall , set bounds to the possibilities of progress . |
| 7 | ‘ So he said he will have external examiners who will set tests to the children to find out whether they have learned the facts . |
| 8 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 9 | Two attackers entered the British base and had set detonators on the bombs before they were discovered by a 64-year-old German maintenance worker . |
| 10 | He had also tried setting traps around the shelves . |
| 11 | But it also fulfils a wider social purpose in setting standards for the markets and in discouraging aberrant behaviour . |
| 12 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |