Example sentences of "he set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he set an example by persuading the Prime Minister to do something about the membership of the Cabinet ? |
| 2 | However , since Stamp Duty has already been removed from share dealing , why has he set a moratorium on house purchase ? |
| 3 | Against this first idea of culture he sets a second definition at once wider and ‘ more fundamental ’ . |
| 4 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 5 | Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with . |
| 6 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
| 7 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 8 | He sets the scene , intervenes , sums up . |
| 9 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 10 | Here he sets the scene , and interviews Jan Urban , the leader of Civic Forum , and Valtre Komarek , a key economic minister |
| 11 | ( In his Mass ‘ Tota pulchra es ’ , for instance , he sets the Benedictus as a canon for tenor and bass . ) |
| 12 | He sets the clergy against each other in rivalry for his favours . |
| 13 | He sets the little circlets on her fingertips |
| 14 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 15 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 16 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
| 17 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 18 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
| 19 | BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them . |
| 20 | Fürst Franz-Anton Thun-Hohenstein spoke first in Czech and then repeated in German : ‘ When President Hawel asked forgiveness for the driving out or resettling of most of the German-speaking population of Czechoslovakia , he set a high standard . |
| 21 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
| 22 | But he set a date , put an Assistant Manager in charge and after a small conflab set the number at 50 . |
| 23 | ENGLAND 's Mark Foster wrote his name in the record books for the second successive day when he set a European short-course 50 metres freestyle record at a World Cup meeting in Gelsenkirchen , Germany , yesterday . |
| 24 | He set a hand to his belt , and drew the hilt of his dagger forward with a gesture there was no mistaking . |
| 25 | He set no date for its resumption , however . |
| 26 | He set no date , but the Constitution required elections within 90 days of the dissolution of parliament , and specified that the date should be set at least six weeks in advance of polling . |
| 27 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 28 | Taking a chair , he set the camera up in the yard outside , bending over for a moment to fiddle with it . |
| 29 | He set the car alarm , and went up to the door . |
| 30 | When Charles received the ( initially ) doubtful title of emperor from Pope Leo III on Christmas Day , 800 , he set the scene for later claims that the Pope had the power to install , or to depose , the Emperor . |