Example sentences of "set a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church planter will do well to set a goal of identifying and releasing others . |
| 2 | That 's very kind of you , ’ was the signal to set a tide of deep apprehension coursing through Laura 's veins . |
| 3 | The Presidents of the four member countries , Uruguay , Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay , agreed to set a ceiling of 20 per cent for common trade tariffs on most commodities , in preparation for the complete elimination of tariffs by the end of January 1994 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act does not define an age when children are competent to give evidence , but case law has tended to set a figure of around seven or eight . |
| 6 | It may be more appropriate to set a period of three to four years for the achievement of the longer term aim . |
| 7 | Berger now had time to restore the fuel consumption figure to a more acceptable level but when Schumacher — also on new tyres — began to set a string of faster laps , he was forced to speed up . |
| 8 | EC foreign ministers set a deadline of Nov. 5 , the date of the next full session of the peace talks , for Serbia to accept the EC peace plan . |
| 9 | Walter Cocking 's Everyman Four TRF receiver , which set a standard of performance for the rest to try to emulate . |
| 10 | The regulations set a ceiling of 15 parts per billion . |
| 11 | As a rule-of-thumb pricing method , they decide to add a 10 per cent profit margin or ‘ mark-up ’ to average cost and so set a price of £4.95 . |
| 12 | One tries to — well — set a bit of an example . |
| 13 | Set a length of plastic conduit in concrete before constructing the brickwork . |
| 14 | The DIP switches are concerned mainly with monitor type — you set a block of three of the six switches to indicate the maximum resolution your monitor is capable of — and whether or not you will want to use the 32k colour modes ( and you will , believe me ! ) |
| 15 | This eventually set a pattern of official exhibition , from which , as we shall see , there were many crucial later breaks . |
| 16 | The popular appeal of proportions and percentages is probably precisely because people understand that they can not go below 0 or above 1 ; the boundaries set a frame of reference in which people can interpret a particular result . |
| 17 | In Islington the financial advisers set a maximum of £50,000 , but the council decided to invest five times that . |
| 18 | Coun Carr told the policy and resources meeting , which set a tax of £353 : ‘ We have been short-changed £800,000 by the Government and that has inevitably had an effect on the level of the charge . |
| 19 | Some plans set a limit of £50,000 worth of cover a year , others allow for the minimum NHS waiting list time to pass before cover is triggered . |
| 20 | They set a number of questions on many subjects whose answers are readily available , but there is one above all which still scuppers me , especially as there are no solutions in the book nor in any subsequent edition . |
| 21 | It 's … er … not been made public , but the kidnappers have set a deadline of October the eleventh for handing over the document . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | In Parliament on May 2 de Klerk ( who had announced the proposed all-party conference on April 18 — see p. 38131 ) said that he intended to go ahead with it with or without the ANC , which had set a deadline of May 9 for its demands to be met . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough has set a budget of £21.6m , £1.4m above the provisional limit . |
| 25 | The Chancellor has set a ceiling of £250,000 . |
| 26 | A report in El País of Sept. 13 claimed that the ministries concerned had set a ceiling of 100,000 on the numbers of illegal immigrants whom they were prepared to legalize within the current amnesty programme ( which was to close on Dec. 10 ) . |
| 27 | However , turning turning to Selby 's demand led approach which I would call it , and I think that is erm how they themselves in fact describe it , they have set a level of two hundred and two hundred to two hundred a fifty hectares based on demand , and as I understand it there is no assessment of job need or job demand to back that requirement . |
| 28 | Instead , she stood still , looking in surprise at the gentle lined face above her , in which was set a pair of kind eyes of the brightest blue she had ever seen . |
| 29 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 30 | Into recesses in the wall are set a range of marvellous and enigmatic gadgets , clearly the products of some sophisticated science . |