Example sentences of "set the high " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Creative , determined to set the highest standards . |
| 2 | MONIE : Set the highest standard in Britain |
| 3 | One other major development in the sixties was the founding of the Society 's headquarters at Balham and it was largely Edith 's housewifely flair and innate good sense that set the high standard and ordered the smooth running of what was inevitably a labour-intensive project . |
| 4 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 5 | In every aspect of his job the Profitboss sets the highest professional standards . |
| 6 | But , people , both like the Royal Family , do be er , veterans of debauchery , and at the same time setting the highest standards . |
| 7 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 8 | His knowledge of athletics , along with several other sports , was almost encyclopaedic , and together with fellow presenter David Coleman , he set the high standards for television coverage of athletics which have helped bring to the sport the huge audiences it enjoys today . |
| 9 | The selector in 1970 , and until 1985 , was Elaine Moss , who set the high standards which her successor , Julia Eccleshare , continued . |