Example sentences of "the government [vb mod] set [art] " in BNC.

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1 He hoped that the government would set an example to the nation by inaugurating a period of change , but he did not believe that the estates of the realm should be given extensive political rights or that the power of the tsar should be dramatically reduced .
2 So , too , does some guess about where the government may set a capping limit .
3 Under current US law , the government must set a legal limit , called a tolerance , for the amount of pesticide residue that can be in or on a food .
4 Hence the Government will set a national business rate .
5 Each year the government will set a ‘ control total ’ , with real spending ( excluding cyclically affected items such as unemployment benefit ) rising rather less than the underlying real rate of growth .
6 It recommends that the government should set a firm date for these authorities to complete surveys of their water supplies .
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