Example sentences of "[be] setting the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 2 | They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put |
| 3 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 4 | George Hatfield , who runs the production turning course at Sydney Technical College in Australia , will again be setting the competition , and again we will be asking entrants to submit two pieces . |
| 5 | ‘ Guides should be setting the example and I think we should think about the way we put adventure first . ’ |
| 6 | In this way you 'll be setting the pattern for 1992 . |
| 7 | Rusk , who appeared to be setting the pace , had asked the Pentagon to prepare military plans as a matter of the greatest urgency ; and when NSC 64 was endorsed by the President on 24 April 1950 the US was committed , by all practical measures , to prevent the expansion of communist aggression in Southeast Asia in spite of the fact that less than a third of Vietnam was reckoned to be controlled by the legal government . |
| 8 | Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either . |
| 9 | Both Slade J. and Devlin J. , respectively , feel that this would be setting the hurdle too low , and certainly Devlin J. in the Barnsley case wants the court ex post to be the yardstick by which to determine whether bias was likely to arise . |
| 10 | At its next meeting , SSC would be setting the wage increase . |
| 11 | Now that kind of language which is what this chap is is using here would seem to me to be setting the the erm frame in a way which really would protect erm a locality from er this policy being a stalking-horse for something that is ordinary . |
| 12 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 13 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 14 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 15 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 16 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 17 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 18 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 19 | While the Blue Streak saga was being played out , Macmillan and McLeod had been setting the stage for Britain 's final withdrawal from Empire . |
| 20 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 21 | Environmental issues are setting the agenda for the future of the household cleaning and care product market in Europe , but , according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan , some manufacturers and retailers have failed to exploit this in their marketing initiatives . |
| 22 | Or is it your children who are setting the ecological pace ? |
| 23 | He believes politicians , church leaders , the judiciary and royalty have to question whether they are setting the right example . |
| 24 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
| 25 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |
| 26 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |
| 27 | The culture of science looks for rapid and visible results , and it is this , despite occasional formal disavowals , that is setting the agenda . |
| 28 | In such a case , we would suspect that the bridle is setting the kite at too steep an angle . |
| 29 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 30 | Beyond that , he says that the rediscovery of the lessons of shamanism and the power of psychedelics is setting the scene for a general Archaic Revival , which will see a return to the magical knowledge of tribal times . |