Example sentences of "[modal v] to set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 2 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 3 | The figures used to set the ‘ obsolescence rate ’ are arbitrary and take little account of subject differences . |
| 4 | He used to set the questions for University Challenge . |
| 5 | He used to set the questions for University Challenge . |