Example sentences of "set [noun] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires member states to set rules on mandatory bids , providing information to shareholders and treating them equally . |
| 2 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you hinting you have no wish to set eyes on this place again ? ’ |
| 4 | The examiner is quite entitled to set questions on any topic in the syllabus regardless of whether a lecture on it has been given or not and you should look out for the " old foxes " . |
| 5 | And dry it would have been if the heavens had n't opened the moment the ship docked and the troops set foot on French soil . |
| 6 | Was it only Friday when she 'd first set eyes on those features that appealed to her so strongly ? |
| 7 | The moment we set eyes on each other … six years ago . ’ |
| 8 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 9 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 10 | Set model on solid surface and measure height of each blade In turn without moving model . |
| 11 | The main carriage is set to slip and the ribber to knit ( both set levers on 1 ) . |
| 12 | The ribbers on the SRP50 , the double knit and Chunky gauge are set to knit in both directions ( set levers on 1 , pick knob on — ) . |
| 13 | By then all they wanted to do was set foot on dry land . |
| 14 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 15 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 16 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 17 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 18 | Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire . |
| 19 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 20 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 21 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 22 | have set countries on any sort of breakthrough path . |
| 23 | In fact , when he does eventually get out of gaol I intend to make sure he never again sets foot on any boat or property owned by my companies . ’ |
| 24 | Election ‘ 92 : Ashdown sets sights on Tory Achilles ’ heel |
| 25 | Union sets guideline on lecturer-student liaisons |
| 26 | After setting hair on medium rollers , George at Cat 's Whiskers styled this 1940 's look |
| 27 | Dramatic curls were achieved by setting hair on medium-sized rollers and Herbs styling mousse . |
| 28 | A dream come true — this elegant style was achieved by setting hair on flexible stylers with Clynol 's Styleset . |
| 29 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 30 | Setting foot on Indian soil at the age of 32 , William Carey never again left . |