Example sentences of "[noun pl] set the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacturers set the bridles with a secure knotted loop at each of the spar attachments . |
| 2 | In the following decades Cook 's eye-catching posters and brochure covers set the travel industry 's style for selling dreams , as did his first travel magazine The Excursionist which gave details of Cook 's tours and was published regularly in worldwide editions for almost a century . |
| 3 | A pair of spectacles and 40s. worth of books set the late ( graduate ) vicar of Whitchurch somewhat apart from his parishioners , who probably did not appreciate his erudition , yet his private collection was certain to be innocent of both profound and frivolous titles , limited to practical works such as collections of sermons , primers of divinity and apologetics , plus , naturally , his Breviary , perhaps too a copy of the Vulgate , or Latin scriptures . |
| 4 | Chintz armchairs and well-worn rugs set the tone . |
| 5 | As a growing child , three simple experiences set the pattern of joy for the rest of Lewis 's life . |
| 6 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 7 | From the 1850s , with stations moving to inner-city sites , station hotels assumed palatial aspects and the railway companies set the standard for others to follow . |
| 8 | Since the companies set the price , they determined both the amount of profit per bbl from extracting it and the amount of tax the ‘ host government ’ could levy on the process . |
| 9 | The incendiaries set the villages on fire and the foragers visit and sack them . |
| 10 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 11 | But the bursting grenades set the heather on fire , forcing the Highland right to withdraw , and after a brisk fire-fight lasting some three hours the whole Jacobite line took to its heels . |
| 12 | But later the deputies set the stage for possible compromise by agreeing to debate a referendum after all . |
| 13 | If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure . |
| 14 | The allegedly second class Scots gave an undeniably first rate account of themselves in a first half in which the Germans set the mood for the evening with the quality of their possession play . |
| 15 | But the old London was being destroyed around him , and on 29 December 1940 , incendiary bombs set the City ablaze : life was peculiar now , he told Mary Hutchinson five days later , and in the preface to an anthology published in the following year , he discussed the problems of a " changing and bewildered world " . |
| 16 | Because such houses set the standard , those who write upon architecture in the eighteenth century and Regency invariably regard houses of moderate size for more limited means as a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 17 | Based on the most serious accident which it was realistically supposed could occur , these plans set the limit of expected evacuation of people living round the Hinkley Point site at just over two miles . |
| 18 | As far as I 'm concerned two things set the assembly in context firstly , the sense of space . |
| 19 | On the basis of US experience , Edwards ( 1979 ) identified a progression of employer strategies from ‘ simple ’ ( direct ) control in small firms , whereby arbitrary power to issue instructions and discipline employees is accorded to foremen and supervisors , 8 through ‘ technical ’ control in which machines set the pace of work , especially in mass-production industries , to a ‘ bureaucratic ’ stage where work becomes highly stratified and employers develop a system of impersonal rules to control workers . |
| 20 | Several times I have seen other researchers do this and have watched higher managers set the scene and limit the enquiry to specific areas — outside management proper — as though the problem existed in a vacuum. , ( Dalton 1959 ) |
| 21 | The new contents pages set the pattern of a project to increase the quantity and range of information and entertainment . |
| 22 | The portrait of Boyd Fortin was the first in Avedon 's project and in some ways set the tone and style of what was to come , linking the Western portraits to previous preoccupations . |
| 23 | In particular , co-operative R&D ventures set the potential gains from internalizing technological spillovers and positive pecuniary externalities against the potential costs of a reduction in competition . |
| 24 | Holders set the pace |
| 25 | Her comments set the divisions of caring responsibilities and material resources in particularly sharp relief . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if theorists adopt a particular conception , then they should look at the way that contemporary social representations have developed their particular qualities through argument and how , in turn , these representations set the agenda for further argumentation . |
| 27 | Their rumbling vibrations set the whole valley quaking . |
| 28 | The highlight of the celebrations is the Centenary Trophy in June when the World champions , Olympic champions and England join Ireland , but the youths set the ball rolling in a series switched to Ireland from its usual four-year cycle to suit the occasion . |
| 29 | To make matters worse , Olga was also the secretary of the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees — a pack of overdressed snobs , groaned Mrs Frizzell , whose members set the standard for every social event in the city . |
| 30 | When all was dry , men set the fen on fire . |