Example sentences of "set the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she does n't really want to earn money from the revelations but simply wants to set the story of the Yorks ' marriage straight . |
| 2 | Commissioning the Royal Philharmonic is likely to set the cat among the pigeons . |
| 3 | Bluntly , the Shadow Cabinet and unions need to get their fingers out — with some expedition — to set the limits of the proposed legal framework . |
| 4 | While blithely ignoring this fact , all Mr Clement will say is that ‘ bluntly , the Shadow Cabinet and unions need to get their fingers out — with some expedition — to set the limits of the proposed legal framework ’ . |
| 5 | Matteo Fargion 's specially composed music for piano , strings and brass does much to set the tone of the piece , with its clouded dissonances and flurries of bright jazzy melody . |
| 6 | Any change is likely to set the framework for the distribution of NHS finances for the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | It is a good plan to set the scene of the case ( e.g . |
| 8 | In seeking to set the scene for the changing face of county hall , and in summarising the changing relationships between all involved in education , it is important to consider the meaning of ‘ delegation of authority ’ and the values it contains . |
| 9 | Presumably they were only here to set the scene for the current convention , as nothing represented a period later than the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | What we have succeeded in doing so far is to set the scene for the quantum mechanical play . |
| 11 | Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy . |
| 12 | The regional meetings called to set the agenda for the big human-rights conference in Vienna next month have provided forums for this bitterness . |
| 13 | To that end this meeting will bring together the most prominent scholars in the field to set the agenda for the future direction of cultural studies . |
| 14 | The discouraging effects of prolonged unemployment , experience in the labour market with employers and official intermediaries , public statements by political and economic commentators , politicians , and employers about the future of employment are all part of a social process of exclusion , which probably began to set the agenda in the minds of individual older workers in the After Redundancy study even before the redundancy itself took place . |
| 15 | This shared and to some extent grew out of the Ritschlian emphasis on history and historical investigation , and was concerned to set the history of the beginnings of Christianity in the wider context of the culture , philosophy and religion of the ancient world . |
| 16 | He selects a version of the ‘ harm to interests ’ principle to set the scope of the obligations of criminal law , and then adopts a choice theory in order to determine the issue of personal responsibility . |
| 17 | As Senior Clinical Research Associate you will play a key role in this pioneering phase , assisting in the design and implementation of programmes for clinical research and advising on the establishment of standard operating procedures to set the foundation for the future . |
| 18 | The idea is to imagine you have been called to a ‘ convention ’ to set the rules of the constitution and the social and economic structure of society . |
| 19 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 20 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 21 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 22 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 23 | It is to some extent modelled on the supposed ‘ Obrecht ’ Passion , which he mentions in his preface , though his text is entirely from St. John and he goes on to point out that he has been ‘ diligent so to set the words under the notes that almost every syllable has its note , and the four voices sing the words at the same time so that the listeners may hear the words clearly ’ . |
| 24 | The time limit for setting the action down for trial runs from close of pleadings so that it is possible to set the action down the day after the plaintiff 's solicitor sends off his list of documents . |
| 25 | ‘ It allows your enemy to set the terms of the debate . |
| 26 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 27 | Six weeks after Lancaster 's execution , on 2 May 1322 , parliament assembled at York to set the seal on the royalist victory . |
| 28 | In February 1972 , Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship . |
| 29 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 30 | The Tories ' overwhelming victory in 1987 appeared to set the seal upon the triumph of bourgeois capitalism . |