Example sentences of "set the 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 | His old classmate , Gil Kenny , who later became a local police chief , said no one thought Jack would set the world alight . |
| 5 | Sevens , through very popular in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres , does not set the world alight in Southern Africa . |
| 6 | The film itself did n't set the world alight , but critics and movie-makers were impressed with the young stars . |
| 7 | The English team are full of great players who could set the world alight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But if Rhodes has n't set the world on fire with his batting , he certainly has with his fielding . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They could have set the world alight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And now we have Sliver which was the subject of much wrangling and has n't exactly set the world on fire . |
| 17 | It was uncovered by Dr Gordon Corbett , formerly of London 's Natural History Museum , and has set the world of entomology a-buzz . |
| 18 | COMMENT the editor sets the world to rights |
| 19 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 20 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights . |
| 23 | A smashing day for sitting around with your favourite folk swapping stories and generally setting the world to rights . |
| 24 | Pretty good this week but had a bad few weeks as well so not setting the world alight yet . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm glad it 's over , ’ said Reynolds , who set the world record of 43.29sec at Zurich in 1988 . |