Example sentences of "and set [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she achieved whatever she did against a massive public distaste for modern art , a fact well documented by Arnold and set clearly in the context of international and national attitudes . |
| 2 | The final meeting took place on Nov. 21 in Havana , Cuba , of the Joint Monitoring Commission ( JMC ) on south western Africa , comprising representatives from Angola , Cuba , Namibia , and South Africa and set up under the Brazzaville Protocol of Dec. 13 , 1988 [ see p. 36380 ] to oversee the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435/78 , on Namibian independence and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola . |
| 3 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 4 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 5 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
| 6 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 7 | For example , if you use what was the dining room for a work room/study as well , you should either have a round table which can be piled with books when necessary , a table set off-centre , or a drop-leaf table that can be pulled out and set up in the centre of the room as required . |
| 8 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |
| 9 | Rennet is added too , which makes the milk clot and set firmly into a junket . |
| 10 | The ash swelled slightly as a result of the wetting and set hard round the corpses , making perfect natural moulds of them , and in some cases preserving even the imprint of clothing and the details of facial expressions . |
| 11 | Every generation is apt to see Christ in its own image and produce its own ‘ plastic Christ ’ , a picture of Jesus pressed through the sieve of its own assumptions and set solidly in the mould of its own values . |
| 12 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) Wherever , in ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above , the order requires one or other court to consider whether it ought to try the case or whether it ought to transfer it ( pursuant to the powers of transfer under ss 40(2) , 41(1) or 42(2) of the 1984 Act ) that court must have regard to the criteria laid down in art 7(5) and set out at the start of Chapter 13 . |
| 14 | It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway . |
| 15 | The two exiles fall in together and set out on the adventure of becoming a suburban couple . |
| 16 | Within six months , however , he had left the Party and set out on the road that led to the formation of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 . |
| 17 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 18 | With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory . |
| 19 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |
| 20 | He put on his sandals and set out for the office of the babu who had the power to give his people what they wanted , or to refuse . |
| 21 | I parked my car at around midday and set out towards the Press tent . |
| 22 | Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory . |
| 23 | Restored with food and warm drinks , we set off down Brewers ' Gullet , portage our final canal lock and set out down the river . |
| 24 | But at last they reached the top and set out along a ridge under the clear blue sky , valleys running steeply to left and right of them . |
| 25 | So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore . |
| 26 | At two o'clock Wycliffe collected the dead man 's keys from the duty officer and set out along the wharf . |
| 27 | When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home . |
| 28 | I watched as Norman handled the rope with competent familiarity , and set out up the centre of the slab . |
| 29 | Quite suddenly she felt a generous relief , as though she 'd given science and herself new hope of heaven , and set out through the gathering dark , home , home across the dragon-haunted park . |
| 30 | If you have a grievance relating to your employment , please refer to the procedure agreed by the Council and set out in the document attached to this statement of particulars . |