Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vote , when it came , broke five days of deadlock for a post that will give Yeltsin no executive powers , but huge authority and the opportunity to help set a new political agenda for the Russian parliament . |
| 2 | The courts had set the sum he should pay for his child by his first marriage at seventeen pounds fifty . |
| 3 | It 's … er … not been made public , but the kidnappers have set a deadline of October the eleventh for handing over the document . ’ |
| 4 | The authorities have set a limit of one twist per customer per week , which is no way to handle the problem . |
| 5 | Arguably , the Club has set the standards for other to follow — and very healthy it looks on them too . |
| 6 | ‘ The words have to set the atmosphere , you see . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Queen has set a shining example of steadfast service over four decades of momentous political and social change , and will he wish her many more years of a great and glorious reign ? |
| 8 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |
| 9 | March 30th , 7.30pm : The council meets to set a rate , facing an inherited deficit of about £50m on top of £175m of 1989-90 spending . |
| 10 | The outlook for sterling is clouded by confusion about whether the Chancellor has set a new floor for the pound . |
| 11 | The Chancellor has set a ceiling of £250,000 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Beside this deliberate , purposive teaching the author has set a second kind of education which is just as moving and as important to the story . |
| 15 | Will he take this opportunity to say what progress is being made on the question of preventive diplomacy , for which the secretary-general has set a deadline of 1 July ? |
| 16 | The Government — Mr John Patten — having learnt through the courts that teachers have the right to refuse to set the prescribed tests , now threatens to cut the headteacher 's salary and to take legal action against the governors of schools where the tests are not set . |
| 17 | The UN has set a tough target for developing countries to reach . |
| 18 | On conviction , the court has to set a value on the drug assets earned during the previous six years , and a confiscation order . |
| 19 | Councillors heard the authority had to set a budget of £11,614,000 for the new financial year and the calculations were based on a community charge to be levied on 74,014 residents . |
| 20 | Bush claimed that the summit had set an " aggressive agenda " in the war on drugs , but rejected Peruvian requests for more US aid . |
| 21 | The woman has to set the enticing fruit , the desire to have knowledge like God himself , against God 's plain command . |
| 22 | The Government has set a 20 p.c. limit on foreign stakes . |
| 23 | The Government has set a curfew on a mile-wide strip the length of the frontiers with Mozambique and Zambia , with orders to shoot on sight . |
| 24 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 25 | But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century . |
| 26 | ‘ Although the government has set the Benefits Agency targets for the recovery of overpaid benefits , there are no targets for improving benefit take-up . |
| 27 | The Government has set an objective of having a structure of NVQs which , by the end of 1992 , covers 80 per cent of the working population of the UK . |
| 28 | The government wants to set the new system to work from January 1 . |
| 29 | The government wants to set the technical standards of Poland 's public network and to retain the power to set ceilings on consumer prices . |
| 30 | The instructions needed to set the printer into bit-image mode are called escape codes because each instruction is preceded by the ASCII code 27 which is generated by the ESC or ESCAPE key on a terminal keyboard . |