Example sentences of "set [art] world " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either . |
| 32 | That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights . |
| 33 | A smashing day for sitting around with your favourite folk swapping stories and generally setting the world to rights . |
| 34 | Pretty good this week but had a bad few weeks as well so not setting the world alight yet . |
| 35 | You may restrict access to files for which LIFESPAN normally requires WORLD:READ or WORLD:READ+EXECUTE access by setting no WORLD access and applying ACLs . |
| 36 | The ring main has already broken several productivity records : Fairclough dug about 38 metres of tunnel in one 12-hour shift , setting a world record for wedgeblock tunnelling ( whereby the ground is supported with a ring of pre-cast concrete segments expanded by a concrete block ) . |
| 37 | Completed on May 1 , 1927 it first flew on May 12 and proved to be an excellent design , setting a world class record for long-distance flight when it flew the 1,240km from Kharkov/Sevastopol to Moscow in fifteen hours thirty minutes . |
| 38 | Eight years after setting a world mile record which still remains unchallenged today , the 32-year-old has abandoned his glittering international miling career to make his eagerly-awaited move up the distance ladder . |
| 39 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 40 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 41 | Like King Arthur of the Britons , Charles the Great , Caroli Magni , changed from being a historical person into a legendary ideal — the great ruler who set the world aright , and encouraged men and women to live by a fusion of spiritual and material principles . |
| 42 | The Wall Street crash , and the collapse of efforts to reconstruct the nineteenth-century liberal international order , set the world on the path to a second global war . |
| 43 | 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 |
| 44 | ‘ I 'm glad it 's over , ’ said Reynolds , who set the world record of 43.29sec at Zurich in 1988 . |
| 45 | 1964 was the year of the Tokyo Olympics , where Abebe Bikila set a world record for the marathon in 2hrs 12mins 11.2secs and Ken Matthews of Great Britain won the 20km walk in 1hr 29mins 34.0secs . |
| 46 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 47 | Tony Simmons set a world age 16 best at Brache in 1965 , with 30:16 for six miles . |
| 48 | It was an electric car that first broke the 100 km/h barrier , when it set a world speed record of 104 km/h in 1898 . |
| 49 | After those championships she has her sights set on a more demanding six-day track event in Australia ; she set a world best for 538 miles at the equivalent event in 1990 . |
| 50 | The same auctioneer set a world record on 22 June for a Louis XV commode by Jacques Dubois which he sold for FFr1.4 million ( £148,936 ; $282,978 ) . |
| 51 | Sandra Voelker , from Germany , set a world best of 28.33sec in the 50m backstroke . |
| 52 | The 22-year-old Londoner , who set a world best in the 50m butterfly in Germany last weekend , held off Russia 's Olympic champion , Alex Popov , by exactly half a second with 21.6sec . |
| 53 | In 1991 Carl Lewis set a world record of 9.86 seconds for the 100 metre sprint . |