Example sentences of "set the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she set the pot on the table , her father came into the kitchen , his beard dark with melting snow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , set the tone for the establishment 's response , saying the offer ‘ will be a psychological boost . |
| 6 | These were the Cold Warriors who set the tone for the Fifties . |
| 7 | Three cases , two from that other period of great division , the 1930s , set the tone for the law as it stood in 1979 . |
| 8 | This set the tone for the 1980s , when , despite successive draconian states of emergency , both secondary schools and universities have played a major part in challenging the government . |
| 9 | The first day was always important , it set the tone for the whole year . |
| 10 | Dick decided from the start that he wanted a ‘ museum quality aircraft ’ and his goal set the tone for the excellence that was to follow . |
| 11 | The first Test at Brisbane set the tone for the series : Australia disappointed with 166 , routed by Bedi 's 5 for 55 , but redeemed themselves by dismissing India for just 153 . |
| 12 | It set the tone for the others by being massive — 500 pages in A4 format . |
| 13 | The first and most dramatic , in early June , set the tone for the rest . |
| 14 | In a rousing speech , the Scottish secretary , Jack McConnell , set the tone for the Inverness conference . |
| 15 | Bradley Allen set the tone in the first minute when he hit the post after Spurs goalkeeper Ian Walker had flapped at Wilson 's cross . |
| 16 | It was the intellectuals of the skilled , respectable working-class , in alliance with the local petty-bourgeoisie and small professional men ( the grocer , publican , magistrate , two doctors and the Anglican vicar ) , who set the tone in the village and orchestrated public opinion . |
| 17 | Hegel himself , regarded as one of the ‘ deflated balloons ’ of German philosophy by his former French admirer , Hippolyte Taine ( 1828–93 ) , went out of fashion in his native country , and the way in which ‘ the tiresome , conceited and mediocre epigones who set the tone among the educated German public ’ treated him moved Marx in the 1860s ‘ to declare myself publicly a disciple of that great thinker ’ . |
| 18 | She set the chicken in the oven . |
| 19 | Mr Kinnock 's job at conference must be to demonstrate Labour 's electability by confirming the party 's new revisionism , by reassuring voters on issues where there is still doubt and , above all , by helping set the agenda for the 1990s . |
| 20 | This Act set the date in the summer term after which children aged 16 are no longer required to attend school . |
| 21 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 22 | First of all , set the scene for the big day : our fabulous , easy-to-make edible decorations will add the finishing festive touches to your dining room . |
| 23 | Annan set the scene for the introduction of Channel 4 . |
| 24 | If Schultz set the scene for the acceptability of the human capital theory , Denison provided the detailed , methodological framework for empirical studies to test the claim that the development of education or health services promotes economic growth . |
| 25 | Doug Allum ( 6 for 62 ) bowled Fives & Heronians to victory over Westcliff on Sea after Steve Adcock 50 and S Marshall 52 set the pace for the home side 's 223 for 6 . |
| 26 | A horse called Metronome and a rider called Pippa Nolan set the pace over the cross country course at Blenheim on Saturday … second after the dressage they pushed into the lead … a re-run of last year when Pippa went and lost it on the showjumping … this year the field was even tougher |
| 27 | In the closing decades of the nineteenth century it was moralists and feminists who set the pace in the field of sexual politics . |
| 28 | Britain set the pace in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | He set the dish before the bars as a visible inducement . |
| 30 | Our food safety course set the standard for the industry and the Department of employment gave Sainsbury 's a National Training Award . |