Example sentences of "it sets the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sets the scene and then helps us work together to improve our situation . |
| 2 | It sets the scene perhaps for it said it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and he adds no sorrow to it . |
| 3 | It sets the tone of debate . |
| 4 | It sets the standard , welcomes the bride into a new hareem and displays the promise of wealth the groom and his family have to offer . |
| 5 | Accompaniment is like the background to a painting — it sets the mood of the whole . |
| 6 | I have gone into this at some length because it sets the stage for what Wittgenstein says . |
| 7 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 8 | It sets the target of reducing atmospheric pollution by 40 per cent over the next decade , and of stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at their present level by the year 2000 ( fast becoming the widely accepted consensus target — see EDs 39 and 40 ) . |