Example sentences of "we [modal v] set the " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps we should set the course up .
2 Decisive battles , the death of kings in battle or the life imprisonment of great men were rare events ; and against the very exceptional , decisive outcome of the battles of 1066 and 1106 we must set the endless , indecisive campaigns of William I and Henry I on the borders of their French domains ; the indecisive warfare of Stephen 's reign which led to anarchy in England .
3 Okay , we 'll set the deadline at thirty one January
4 In deciding what we are going to settle for — or in choosing from alternatives — then we might set the priorities and satisfy as many of the most important ones as we can .
5 I suggested some simple exercises , to be done without knitting on the machine , that showed what effect the tuck and slip controls had on the needles and how we could set the carriages to slip or tuck in one direction and knit in the other .
6 But we need to decide the level at which we will set the core curriculum , the point at which individual interpretation begins .
7 And we will set the questions .
8 At Edinburgh I hope we can set the new membership negotiations in train .
9 And the provision for the county is well over the allocations in the structure plan already , but the County Council , sent observations to the District Council to say , We 're not going to object to this particular er windfall site coming forward for a hundred and sixty houses , because it 's recycling existing urban land , and in that case we can set the policy to one side .
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