Example sentences of "set [noun pl] 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 | ‘ Are you hinting you have no wish to set eyes on this place again ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Was it only Friday when she 'd first set eyes on those features that appealed to her so strongly ? |
| 5 | The moment we set eyes on each other … six years ago . ’ |
| 6 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The main carriage is set to slip and the ribber to knit ( both set levers on 1 ) . |
| 9 | 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 — ) . |
| 10 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 13 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | have set countries on any sort of breakthrough path . |
| 16 | Election ‘ 92 : Ashdown sets sights on Tory Achilles ’ heel |
| 17 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 18 | Thulani Davis describes policemen setting dogs on black women and children campaigning for the right to buy a cup of coffee at the local Woolworths , and educated black men being asked to abandon French courses at university . |
| 19 | Setting prices on average equal to marginal cost can be done in more than one way , and some will be socially superior to others . |