Example sentences of "[prep] setting the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had my only run of the day at approximately 11 am and after setting the hooks I had a slow , dogged fight for about five minutes before netting the fish at the second attempt , ’ said Dave . |
| 2 | This time , after setting the passages in their context in the briefest possible way , we will turn to them straight away . |
| 3 | His task was made easier when Marcel Albers , the second-placed Dutchman , after setting the fastest lap , was forced to go into the pit with electrical problems . |
| 4 | By 1970 the official limit , not for the first time , was set at no less than 12,000 kilograms , a fair bit up on the I935 maximum of 7,500 kilograms , while the average yield topped I3,800 kilograms per hectare and , after setting the official limit at I3,000 kilograms in 1973 , a law was passed the following year placing an absolute ceiling of 13,000 kilograms per hectare on all AOC Champagne vineyards , beyond which the so-called maximum could not be stretched . |
| 5 | After setting the West Australian team a target of 168 runs for victory , Pakistan managed to restrict the home team to 166–6 in their allocated 45 overs . |
| 6 | FACING TWO WAYS : Torvill and Dean go in separate directions after setting the ice alight in their spectacular shows ( below ) — home to their own partners , husband Phil in Jayne 's case ( inset top left ) and wife Isabelle in Chris 's ( top right ) |
| 7 | Arie Luyendyk starts from pole position after setting the top speed of 223.967 mph last weekend in a Lola-Ford Cosworth . |
| 8 | My Lord Mayor , after setting the parameters , I do feel that can continue it 's good relations with our other cities and use Brussels as a tool to this end . |
| 9 | After setting the scene this use of description slightly declines unless he is introducing a new character or scene . |
| 10 | Mr Miroslav Stepan , the politburo member who has been accused of setting the riot police on the demonstrators , has been charged . |
| 11 | I took the precaution of setting the comms to automatic response . |
| 12 | It is once again a matter of setting the patient an achievable and sustainable objective . |
| 13 | The only jobs left ( besides that of setting the equipment ) are loading and unloading . |
| 14 | This problem of setting the most appropriate price to achieve the firm 's objective is compounded in practice because of imperfect information . |
| 15 | Other than the camera technique , which is a subject quite apart from this book on kites , we are now left with that vital question of setting the field of view . |
| 16 | Instead of setting the main carriage to Fair Isle , it is set to slip , so while the pattern stitches are knitted the background stitches are slipped and vice versa . |
| 17 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 18 | In the Spring of 1966 , six of the Commissioners , led by Radzinowicz and Wootton resigned , having become persuaded that , with substantial legislation pending , and in the absence of conclusive research to support recommendations likely to last for a lengthy period , the opportunity no longer existed for the Commission to make a comprehensive report capable of setting the direction for a generation . |
| 19 | ( This is part of the process of setting the objectives . ) |
| 20 | A topic has to be definite because of its function of setting the framework for interpreting the sentence as a whole . |
| 21 | If regular flow has been selected the user has the option of setting the amount of stand-off between the graphic and the text . |
| 22 | France had immense influence in Brussels and a long and happy record of setting the EEC 's agenda according to French needs . |
| 23 | That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights . |
| 24 | The task of setting the budget had been passed on Dec. 27 by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies to the Federation Council , after the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on Dec. 26 had thrown the budget-setting exercise into crisis by voting to cut its contribution to the union budget by almost 85 per cent , to 23,400 million roubles ( US$1.00=Rbs0.5556 as at Dec. 31 , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | FACILITY_AVAIL is a way of setting the default ( power-up ) condition of the LIFESPAN process . |
| 26 | The user interface looks like setting the standard for future electronic books of this kind . |
| 27 | A prompt correction and apology for an indefensible defamation serves two purposes besides setting the record straight . |
| 28 | One problem with setting the neck so deep into the body is that relatively little space is left for pickup separation . |
| 29 | This is useful in setting the zero field output correctly . |
| 30 | What they did not know — and perhaps Mr Desai did not know either — was that urine contains large amounts of melatonin — a chemical secreted by the pineal gland which is involved ( no one knows how ) in setting the body 's natural rhythms . |