Example sentences of "the [noun] set down " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've heard before that Leeds works within the rules of the framework set down by regional planning guidance , and that makes very and the main stream of that guidance is the revitalization of our inner areas . |
| 2 | Setting aside the exact figures chair , I think Leeds position is that left late at the goalposts set down by R P G two , erm our members are the City Council 's grasped the mettle of accommodating the level of accommodation that that implies . |
| 3 | My method now is to take the tension setting down as low as the thickness of the yarn will allow , knit a couple of rows , then increase to the loose tension . |
| 4 | In any such case the plaintiff 's solicitor will be sent a reminder of the requirement to set down and will be invited to fill in a standard report form on the state of the case . |
| 5 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 6 | As he knows , I must decide whether to give this matter precedent over the business set down for today or for tomorrow . |
| 7 | As he knows , I have to decide whether his application comes within the Standing Order and , if so , whether a debate should be granted which would take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow . |
| 8 | The waiter set down the glasses , saying , ‘ It should be entirely forbidden . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |
| 10 | The magistrate set down a trial date of the fourth of February . |
| 11 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 12 | However , in the late 1970s they stated quite categorically that they were not able to take an initiative on the priorities set down in national policy . |
| 13 | I er , move the motions set down in the order paper and , does anybody else wish to speak on this ? |
| 14 | Director of Studies : ‘ Could you relate these 3 criteria to the objectives set down in the syllabus … show us how the objectives fit them ? ’ |
| 15 | In the Mathematics and Science Orders , the government set down ranges of levels for each key stage . |
| 16 | These two Acts provided , amongst other things , powers to fine trades unions and to sequestrate their funds should they fail to control picketing and protest within the limits set down . |
| 17 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 18 | The Doctor set down his beaker . |
| 19 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 20 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 21 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |
| 22 | In the ever changing conditions of real life the clinician would adjust any regimen to the patient 's particular needs ; in contrast , the researcher would do his or her best to make the patient conform with the standard set down by the protocol . |
| 23 | The Convention set down certain human rights and created a political and judicial procedure to secure their protection . |
| 24 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 25 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , then , their package of proposals for constitutional change has much in common with the perspective set down in the last section . |