Example sentences of "set the tone [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matteo Fargion 's specially composed music for piano , strings and brass does much to set the tone of the piece , with its clouded dissonances and flurries of bright jazzy melody . |
| 2 | A series of positive reports regarding homework tasks can set the tone of the group to follow . |
| 3 | Besides two short piano pieces from Sanctus , Words For The Dying also includes the luminous The Soul of Carmen Miranda , one of three spontaneous and highly promising recordings with Eno that will set the tone for the next album , ‘ a rock'n'roll record I can be happy with because the percussion wo n't hit me over the head . ’ |
| 4 | The seminar will not only set the tone for the CentCom meetings , but will also form part of a worldwide series of activities leading up to WACC 's Second World Communication Congress in 1995 , which will focus on the same theme . |
| 5 | There 's the lack of national political debate which raise the tough , awkward questions that will act as restraints upon those controlling the conflict , and could set the tone for the longer- run peace . |
| 6 | This work will set the tone for the new structure , and I hope can be completed well within two months . |
| 7 | Reception areas , which should set the tone for the entire hotel , so often let it down . |
| 8 | The comments come just ahead of two key decisions by Scottish Office ministers which will set the tone for the new curriculum and could damage the wide agreement over its introduction . |
| 9 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 10 | The Chairman set the scene by immediately putting the College staff at ease and set the tone of the meeting as friendly , efficient , and business like . |
| 11 | Margaret Thatcher also set the tone for the conference with a deliberately upbeat message . |
| 12 | For example , fears of escalation expressed by the police set the tone for the Star headline BABY-FACED SEX BEAST ‘ SET TO KILL' — ‘ Detectives believe the same man carried out two earlier attacks and is becoming increasingly violent . |
| 13 | Opening remarks are important since they set the tone for the rest of the sales interview . |
| 14 | We set the tone at the Tory Conferences and the other parties have followed suit . |
| 15 | Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so . |
| 16 | We have set the tone for the future , and that is to be greatly welcomed . |
| 17 | In fact , Albany and Schwartz tell us , the Davy lamp enabled the managers of the mines to extend operations into seams with dangerous atmospheres , so when accidents did occur , the chances of being killed were far higher , This example sets the tone of the remainder of the book , which discusses more topical issues in science and how they are manipulated to serve one vested interest or another . |
| 18 | Since the keyboard instrument sets the tone of the entire performance in a Mozart Trio , this tips the scale in favour of the Mozarteans , even without their price advantage . |
| 19 | However , Tom gets on well with the second chef , who shares his general outlook , and this sets the tone of the kitchen . |
| 20 | The Master of the Rolls sets the tone of the court and can control the distribution of business among his colleagues . |
| 21 | This week 's riot by 150 schoolgirls at Wimbledon station will almost certainly prove to be the crucial event of the election period , and the one which sets the tone for the next decade or so . |
| 22 | Hayez 's ‘ Pietro Rossi ’ , considered to be a key work in Romantic painting ( Bottega di San Luca ) sets the tone for the nineteenth-century section . |
| 23 | The Prologue ( DV 1 ) sets the tone for the whole document . |
| 24 | This session ‘ To strengthen the poor ’ is important and sets the tone for the rest of the weekend . |
| 25 | Despite this glimpse of vintage anti-Semitic paranoia , setting the tone for the new wave of anti Jewish action and propaganda which began in the last months of 1937 and continued throughout the following year , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was scarcely touched upon in Hitler 's speeches throughout the critical year of 1938 . |
| 26 | But the pessimists include Edward Shevardnadze , whose sudden resignation as foreign minister set the tone at the meeting from December 17th to 27th of the Congress of People 's Deputies , the Soviet super-parliament . |
| 27 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 28 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 29 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , set the tone for the establishment 's response , saying the offer ‘ will be a psychological boost . |
| 30 | These were the Cold Warriors who set the tone for the Fifties . |