Example sentences of "set the pace " in BNC.

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1 British dealers bite the Big Apple : American collectors set the pace and the prices .
2 The Briton , who claimed pole position and again set the pace in his Canon Williams Renault FW14B , attempted to pass Senna 's new Marlboro McLaren Honda MP4/7A on the outside of the tight and slow Bico de Pato curve .
3 His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship .
4 On the basis of US experience , Edwards ( 1979 ) identified a progression of employer strategies from ‘ simple ’ ( direct ) control in small firms , whereby arbitrary power to issue instructions and discipline employees is accorded to foremen and supervisors , 8 through ‘ technical ’ control in which machines set the pace of work , especially in mass-production industries , to a ‘ bureaucratic ’ stage where work becomes highly stratified and employers develop a system of impersonal rules to control workers .
5 When machines provide the energy and set the pace the objective of the operator ( and consequently of ergonomics ) shifts from rates and amounts to quality , reliability and safety .
6 Undoubtedly the product that set the pace was Aldus PageMaker .
7 Holders set the pace
8 set the pace for Austria with the , track record run of fifty seven point seven four and the second bob is fifteenth see I mean they 're , they 're , they 're fifty seven , eight for nine against fifty seven , seven , four , so I mean they 're not half a second then , I mean they were , they were first in the two man and then they dropped six after one run so
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