Example sentences of "set the [noun] of 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 | Bluntly , the Shadow Cabinet and unions need to get their fingers out — with some expedition — to set the limits of the proposed legal framework . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is a good plan to set the scene of the case ( e.g . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It allows your enemy to set the terms of the debate . |
| 10 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 11 | Stork until recently has personally maintained his hold on the majority of the equity in order , he says , to help set the direction of the firm . |
| 12 | You will set the ownership of the directory later ( Section 1.2.1 ) . |
| 13 | Until the very recent past governments would also set the level of the licence fee . |
| 14 | This , though it aroused enthusiasm , could not set the agenda of the Council . |
| 15 | A series of positive reports regarding homework tasks can set the tone of the group to follow . |
| 16 | Here you can set the speed of the transition effect and the length of time each graph is shown on screen . |
| 17 | The Chairman set the scene by immediately putting the College staff at ease and set the tone of the meeting as friendly , efficient , and business like . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 19 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 20 | Two moments which set the course of the presidential election and which changed the course of American history . |
| 21 | If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure . |
| 22 | Editor , — As B W Lloyd and P Barnett emphasise , communication between general practitioners and hospital specialists is of utmost importance — the letter remains the most significant factor in this and often it is this initial form of contact which may determine the care a patient receives and set the tune of the partnership between the two doctors . |
| 23 | Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year . |
| 24 | Against these objections must be set the advantages of the rating system : payment is difficult to avoid , income is predictable , and collection is cheap and easy . |
| 25 | If you had set the pitch of the blades using a pitch gauge this will , of course , upset your careful adjustments . |
| 26 | We could test it to see if we get an output , we do n't but we could do , there 's no need because all we have to do in effect is just set the weights of the decoders that are actually coming out . |
| 27 | This feature is illustrated in figure 5.2 , in which it can be seen that in period 3 ( odd ) w t was set the end of the period 2 ( even ) but was actually set two periods earlier in period 1 ( odd ) . |
| 28 | We 've set the target of the year 2000 to make all rights of way accessible and the action pack should help to achieve that . |
| 29 | Finally , the state sets the rules of the international system , and all other actors have to work within them . |
| 30 | I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence . |