Example sentences of "[noun] set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During her first public visit to Britain , Kylie set the tone for two years of teasing and tantalising . |
| 2 | Williams from Didcot in Oxfordshire the champions of 92 are the favourites for 93 … but what will life be like without Mansell … will Prost be back to his best … can new boy Damon Hill set the world alight |
| 3 | A sharp gust of wind set the whole tree in motion and he dung on desperately like a sailor in the rigging , remembering Dalziel 's jocular injunction to ‘ watch himself ’ . |
| 4 | The type of soil and quality of light set the parameters for every plan . |
| 5 | The producers cartel set the quotas in an attempt to prevent over-supply of the fuel causing a price slump when demand falls with the onset of warmer weather . |
| 6 | The headline set the tone : ‘ Sure , It 's the Greatest Show on Earth — But Need It Cost the Earth ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Campbell cracked his first ever senior hat-trick after England ace Wright set the ball rolling with his 62nd strike in just 87 games for the Gunners . |
| 9 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 10 | Australian Peter O'Marley set the early pace with a 4 under par 638 . |
| 11 | Andy Roberts set the Caribbean fast bowling conveyor belt in motion . |
| 12 | Ceauşescu set the target : $10 billion had to be repaid by the end of the decade . |
| 13 | AGED 14-16 : Traditional classics such as Eliot 's Silas Marner , Hardy 's The Mayor Of Casterbridge and Jane Austen 's Pride And Prejudice set the tone here , though there is still room for William Golding 's classic Lord Of The Flies . |
| 14 | The relative stability in the north that followed Barbarossa 's defeat set the stage for the next step in the rise of the city states . |
| 15 | But when they reached the railway line and Mister Johnny set the goose down and said , ‘ Gurlyi , gurlyi , ’ she knew what he was trying to say . |
| 16 | Li Yuan set the bowl aside and stood , looking down at her . |
| 17 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 18 | Reasoning that a circle has 360 degrees , MacArthur let geometry set the basis of Japan 's international trade . |
| 19 | Tibbetts RN set the fuses on Campbeltown 's warhead . |
| 20 | Salvo Lima had been Mayor of Palermo in the building boom of the Fifties and Sixties , when the Mafia set the rules of many public contracts . |
| 21 | Zambia 's first development plan set the ambitious goal of providing primary school places for all children by 1970 . |
| 22 | DeVore set the rose quartz bottle down and turned to face his friend . |
| 23 | The broad gauge set the standard for developments for half a century , largely because the greater stability permitted higher speeds than were then possible on the narrow gauge and hence led to engineering advances that would make such speeds possible , eventually in the narrow gauge as well . |
| 24 | He considered it ‘ obvious to everyone that neither Pakistan nor Thailand in SEATO , nor Iraq , Iran or Turkey in the Baghdad Pact set the policy ’ . |
| 25 | This time the boy set the stone down in the south , in shang , only a hand 's length from Tuan Ti Fo 's knee . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the committee set the rules and obtained generous sponsorship through local industry , together with donors for the two trophies . |
| 27 | This Act set the date in the summer term after which children aged 16 are no longer required to attend school . |
| 28 | In the display window of Joy Jewels the sun set the rhinestone ropes and little gilt collarets ablaze , and the plane tree leaves shadowed the pavements in damask tablecloth patterns . |
| 29 | The waves lapped into the bay in a murmur , and the sun set the sea dazzlingly alight . |
| 30 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |