Example sentences of "[verb] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has set every junior in Britain alight . |
| 2 | The evidence shows that in many cases the minister of state has set a date for the first review later than would have been the case if he had adopted the views expressed by the judiciary . |
| 3 | The Scottish Commonwealth Games Council has set a £250,000 target to send a record team of up to 160 to Victoria , Canada , next year . |
| 4 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 5 | The Chancellor has set a ceiling of £250,000 . |
| 6 | Martyn became the first £1 million keeper , Seaman the costliest at £1.3 million — now a tribunal has set a £1.3 million fee for James . |
| 7 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has set a monitoring range of 0–4pc for M0 , which measures notes and coins in circulation plus bank balances at the Bank of England . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's getting very messy and very political , ’ said Keegan , who has set a deadline for the Belgian club . |
| 9 | Will he take this opportunity to say what progress is being made on the question of preventive diplomacy , for which the secretary-general has set a deadline of 1 July ? |
| 10 | Middlesbrough has set a budget of £21.6m , £1.4m above the provisional limit . |
| 11 | Those with a taste for Machiavellian plots have suggested that maybe Mr Li has set a trap for Mr Zhu by leaving him in charge at a time when he will have to tackle the delicate problems of an over-heating economy . |
| 12 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 13 | lt has set a strategy for the next stages in the development of the information systems and database project and , through the encouragement of user involvement and management participation , a ‘ style ’ likely to lead to its successful completion . |
| 14 | The European Community has set a target to reduce landfill use from its present rate of 70 per cent to 10 per cent by the beginning of the next century . |
| 15 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 16 | The United States is also deeply involved in the promotion of ethanol production and has set a target of approximately 3477 million litres a year of alcohol for fuel use by 1982 . |
| 17 | The Dutch government has set a target of producing 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the year 2000 thorough wind power generation . |
| 18 | But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century . |
| 19 | The North-East network has set a target that 90pc of short distance trains for example from Newcastle to Sunderland should arrive within five minutes of scheduled times . |
| 20 | Daewoo Electronics Co has set a conversion price of 14,400 Korean won on its par-priced $70m issue of convertible bonds due December 31 2008 and callable after May 18 1994 . |
| 21 | The EC has set a limit of 100 ug/litre but a US study suggests this should be significantly reduced because of a ‘ highly significant relationship ’ between chloroform and cancers of the bladder , colon and rectum . |
| 22 | The Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has set a figure of just below three hundred million pounds as his own suggestion of what the Council should be spending next year , but that falls well below the figures calculated by the ruling Labour and Democrat Coalition . |
| 23 | The near perfect 40–15 win over England in Sydney last year has set a benchmark the Wallabies wish to repeat . |
| 24 | The Government has set a curfew on a mile-wide strip the length of the frontiers with Mozambique and Zambia , with orders to shoot on sight . |
| 25 | I think er one of the papers made this erm I think Alec Douglas Hulme er has set a sort of standard which I would admire . |
| 26 | ‘ He has done brilliantly , considering what a bad injury he had and he has set a lot of people talking . |
| 27 | I think that the Minister has set a record in the House by making what was probably one of the longest Second Reading speeches for one of the shortest Bills . |
| 28 | Now Charlie who has set a host of records in recent months is heading for another one — the highest number of winners in the newly formed Irish jump season . |
| 29 | AN APPEAL from Down Under has set a North-East couple searching for a namesake . |
| 30 | The Government has set an objective of having a structure of NVQs which , by the end of 1992 , covers 80 per cent of the working population of the UK . |