Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Australian Peter O'Marley set the early pace with a 4 under par 638 . |
| 7 | Andy Roberts set the Caribbean fast bowling conveyor belt in motion . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu set the target : $10 billion had to be repaid by the end of the decade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tibbetts RN set the fuses on Campbeltown 's warhead . |
| 11 | DeVore set the rose quartz bottle down and turned to face his friend . |
| 12 | With the sale of the manor off her mind , Jane set the wheels in motion to find somewhere small to live , and treated herself to many walks with the dogs — more carefree , perhaps , than she had ever been . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Skippers Bistro in Dock Place set the example , but several others followed , on both sides of the mouth of the Water of Leith . |
| 15 | They rose 10 per cent on 2 August , and also moved up when the UN imposed sanctions , when Iraq refused the UN 's call for withdrawal and when the UN set the 15 january deadline . |
| 16 | Shouldering the door shut , Meh'Lindi set the Squat down somewhat abruptly , though not ungently . |
| 17 | In 1954 Butler set the aim of a doubling of the standard of living within twenty-five years . |
| 18 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 19 | Doncaster and Liverpool set the agenda last year and the pot is to be kept boiling with a Sunday point-to-point near Warwick on 26 April and a mixed flat and hurdles meeting at Lingfield on 1 August . |
| 20 | 3–0 to West Indies set the tour back on its path towards normality after the Test aberrations in Jamaica and Trinidad . |
| 21 | Standard two up and one down rigs armed with size two Aberdeens set the trend for flatties , eels , pout and rockling . |
| 22 | Gibeau set the tone of our stay at Garrigues by making us run and crawl around the house , singing all the time . |
| 23 | Delaney set the mug of tea down . |
| 24 | Larner set the figure at 10 per cent , and in his later study , with the process of dispersal having become even more marked , Herman acknowledged that a holding of 5 per cent or more ‘ begins to approach non-negligibility from the standpoint of corporate power ’ . |
| 25 | Rossini set the words of his theatre librettists happily and so , give or take a few personal quiddities , did the Italian stories , outline and the dictate the treatment , but he handed over the actual versification to Piave , Ghislanzoni , Boito and the rest . |
| 26 | Jess set the tankard down and began to unbutton his shirt . |
| 27 | In the 250 race Gary Jess set the pace for eight of the 12 laps , before front fork failure forced him to slow down . |
| 28 | In a television broadcast on April 3 President Chadli Bendjedid set the date of June 27 for Algeria 's first multiparty general election . |
| 29 | That evening , Belov set the fire as Alina opened some canned stew . |
| 30 | There was a radiator behind the chairs with a protecting shelf above it , and Donaldson set the plastic cups down on this . |