Example sentences of "set [art] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US farmer will tend to set the world grain price , says economist Michael Murphy . |
| 2 | In Britain , the equivalent is Prestel which , though stocked with stacks of useful information ( though no Madame Whiplashes ) , has failed to set the world alight . |
| 3 | None of the three papers was going to set the world on fire . |
| 4 | WHEAT was cut , ground to flour and baked into bread in just 21 minutes to set a world record at Heckington , Lincs , yesterday . |
| 5 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 6 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 7 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 8 | His old classmate , Gil Kenny , who later became a local police chief , said no one thought Jack would set the world alight . |
| 9 | Sevens , through very popular in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres , does not set the world alight in Southern Africa . |
| 10 | The film itself did n't set the world alight , but critics and movie-makers were impressed with the young stars . |
| 11 | The English team are full of great players who could set the world alight . |
| 12 | The quality of the ball reaching Simon Geoghegan may have compromised his chances to make the Lions party unless the selectors are aware that the young London Irish winger could set the world alight if provided with a bit of time and space . |
| 13 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 14 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 15 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 16 | Pedrosa waves his arms about in the air furiously when asked if Mota could ever set a world record . |
| 17 | The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee . |
| 18 | But if Rhodes has n't set the world on fire with his batting , he certainly has with his fielding . |
| 19 | We have n't set the world alight , but we have seen a selection of the many kinds of birds and animals which choose to make Shetland their home . |
| 20 | They could have set the world alight . |
| 21 | Cram , who has hardly set the world alight this year with just one win in four races during a campaign disrupted by inevitable calf and hamstring trouble , has only flirted with the odd 5,000m race in the past . |
| 22 | And now we have Sliver which was the subject of much wrangling and has n't exactly set the world on fire . |
| 23 | It was uncovered by Dr Gordon Corbett , formerly of London 's Natural History Museum , and has set the world of entomology a-buzz . |
| 24 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 25 | Two wingwalkers have set a world record by handing a baton between aircraft flying just twelve feet apart . |
| 26 | COMMENT the editor sets the world to rights |
| 27 | The Social Climbers by Chris Darwin and John Amy ( Mainstream , £12.99 ) — A black-tie dinner in a blizzard on the 22,000-foot summit of Peru 's highest and most unpronounceable mountain , where the guests almost die of hypothermia , sets a world record , raises money for charity and gets Charles Darwin 's great-great-grandson on to a Japanese television show for freaks . |
| 28 | Compton sale of Japanese swords sets a world record for total value |
| 29 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 30 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |