Example sentences of "set the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 2 | If you are serious about this , it is time to set the tables for breakfast . ’ |
| 3 | And to try to set the blame on Hector ! ’ |
| 4 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 5 | Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the . |
| 6 | I 'd like to set the hairdresser on fire who did my mum 's hair , it looks hideous . |
| 7 | GMAG ( pronounced ‘ Geemag ’ ) and the HSE between them help to set the level of containment necessary , and give advice on how to design a safe process . |
| 8 | In both Britain and Spain the minister has statutory powers to approve budgets , plans and investment programmes , annual reports and accounts , overall price increases , and rail closures ; to set the level of state support for the railways ; and to make or confirm appointments to the board , including the chairman . |
| 9 | Furthermore , enough insight has been achieved in mapping their respective domains to allow us henceforth to set the problem of demarcation to one side . |
| 10 | If you 've been thinking of making domestic changes or improvements , but lacked the money or momentum to set the wheels of change in motion use today to make a start . |
| 11 | Even an apparently new fortune like Sir Lewis de Bourgh 's , displayed by his dictatorial widow Lady Catherine in Pride and Prejudice , enables Rosings to set the standard for Hunsford . |
| 12 | In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus . |
| 13 | Before he concentrated on the actual scene of the crime , Dalgliesh always liked to make a cursory survey of the surroundings to orientate himself , and , as it were , to set the scene of murder . |
| 14 | The right video material can do this in a range of ways : its vivid presentation of settings and characters can be used to set the scene for roleplay ; it can present a case with such impact that it sparks off fierce debate ; we all make our own interpretations of what we see and so video can be a stimulus to genuine communication in the classroom by bringing out different opinions within the group . |
| 15 | THE last thing Norman Lamont and John Major wanted on a day when the unadjusted unemployment total topped 3 million again in spite of all the Government 's ( indirect ) efforts to set the scene for recovery was for the IMF to meddle in UK economic policy issues . |
| 16 | Central to Agricultural Relief , as with the other elements of the popular movement , remained the belief that the community had to set the agenda of priorities and participate in seeking solutions . |
| 17 | Both men believe they are best-placed to set the agenda for Langbaurgh in the Nineties . |
| 18 | Or does practice provide a constant flow of real-life problems and approaches which helps to set the agenda for curricula and research , and which may even run ahead of theory ? |
| 19 | The EPLP is ideally placed to work alongside other Parliamentary groups in the Community to set the agenda for Europe and for its people . |
| 20 | This may be used to set the voltage at pin 6 , with pin 4 connected to 0V . |
| 21 | It would seem , therefore , that Bukharin was attempting to set the drive for industrialisation within the wider socio-political framework of the worker-peasant alliance upon which NEP was founded , rather than within merely narrow ‘ economic ’ guidelines . |
| 22 | He used to set the questions for University Challenge . |
| 23 | He used to set the questions for University Challenge . |
| 24 | Some of them sat on the grass , smoked cigarettes and watched the organizers ' bumbling attempts to set the rally in progress . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal , with its considerable case-load of appeals in personal injury actions and the relatively recent experience of many of its members in trying such cases themselves is , generally speaking , the tribunal best qualified to set the guide-lines for judges currently trying such actions . |
| 26 | So you have to set the boundaries for friends , in just the same way that you do for parents . |
| 27 | Thus while most of the blues-derived techniques I have mentioned appear to set the music in opposition to mainstream musical language ( including that of many contemporary pop songs ) , they are developed in such a way as to lay stress on individualistic virtuosity and personal expression , achieved through ‘ professional ’ mastery of instrumental technique ; and this could be seen as at least compatible with the traditions of bourgeois art . |
| 28 | It needs vision to foresee what the finished product will look like , but it also needs skill , to set the process in motion and maintain it with economy of effort . |
| 29 | If the situation continues I will have no other recourse than to set the facts before Rose Lipman . |
| 30 | The alternative , as he saw it , was that the Americans would take over the Empire , while Britain exhausted herself trying to set the continent to rights . |