Example sentences of "[conj] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 'm sure what you say is true and , knowing as many people as we are privileged and glad to know , I agree with you that there is a wide spectrum , but it 's always the case that the vociferous ones are the ones that set the tone , and often in wrong light . |
| 2 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 3 | I shake my head and set a course for the car park . |
| 4 | Then it liked a little higher , flattened out and set a course at sub-radar altitude . |
| 5 | The Government now intends to draw up its own inventory of local needs and set a contribution to the local authority that will allow for the provision of those minimum needs in year one . |
| 6 | In a tight match at Christleton visitors Oakmere batted first and set a total of 165 for five , Paul Matthews 66 . |
| 7 | The State Council subsequently instituted a nationwide restructuring campaign , and set a Sept. 20 deadline for clearing debt arrears between enterprises . |
| 8 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 9 | A sensible Genoese colony , however stiff-necked , might therefore meet over its ass-bones and set a date for surrender , you 'd hope . |
| 10 | During 1996 the European Council will determine whether a majority of member countries satisfy the convergence criteria and set a date for the union to become operational . |
| 11 | She slid in and around the one who was dressing , and set a couple of coffees down in what limited space she could see on the table . |
| 12 | Then she cooked pasta and shredded chicken and chopped fruit and nuts and sliced black bread and made beetroot soup and prepared sour cream and a cheese board and polished wine glasses and put butter in lemon-coloured dishes and made salad dressings and laid the table and set a serviette decorated with a Groucho Marx face by the side of each place . |
| 13 | He threw out his hands again and set a grin through clenched teeth on his burning face . |
| 14 | In a surprise move on Jan. 17 Judge Hoeveler stated that he wanted to bring the Noriega case to trial " very quickly " , and set a trial date for March 5 . |
| 15 | To overcome this problem , after long-netting the main wood two of us would walk behind the rabbits and set a net along the small wood . |
| 16 | They took-off at 4.47am , well before dawn , and set a compass course of 282° for the western end of the island of Timor , allowing 4° magnetic variation and 1° of drift . |
| 17 | These presentations are referred to as pseudoisochromatic or confusion plates and set a task in which the normal eye can discriminate figures composed of coloured dots , whilst the eye with abnormal colour vision can not do so . |
| 18 | Joshua opened a bottle of House Champagne and set a glass of it on the edge . |
| 19 | Clemens was not happy at his supersession and set a crowd of ruffians to make Glynn 's position untenable . |
| 20 | It transformed the way that the English dealt with the world outside Europe ; even though Charles 's son came back to the throne as Charles II in 1660 , the Republic changed the direction of English imperial policy and set a pattern followed at least until the death in 1714 of the last direct descendant of Charles I to sit on the throne . |
| 21 | It was the influx of these outstanding scholars that made the Warburg an internationally renowned research institute and set a pattern for the future . |
| 22 | These will be shared by members of the organisation and set a pattern for its activities and actions . |
| 23 | Arts , architecture and literature flourished and set a pattern for the whole of Europe . |
| 24 | In 1954 Carroll Shelby and Donald Healey went record breaking together at Bonneville and set a string of records with various versions of Healey 's 100 and 100S sports cars . |
| 25 | She went quickly into the kitchen and set a tray for coffee . |
| 26 | The second Act required every maintained school to have a governing body , and set a formula for the numbers of parent , voluntary body and LEA representatives , which depended on the type and size of the school . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State paved the way for the greening of all Whitehall departments through a White Paper to be published next year and set a target on the recycling of household waste . |
| 28 | Only through Cunhaval was she aware of life in the forest and it was not a life-form that encouraged them to slow down and set a trap . |
| 29 | Federation officials had been concerned that the scheme , part of the proposed £1 million Citywatch crime prevention campaign for the city , would cut across traditional police duties and set a precedent for a privatised police force . |
| 30 | You 'd better go back and uncouple the and split it again and set the buckeye . |