Example sentences of "[be] setting [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're setting no prices . |
| 2 | I hate this thing about you know you 're making a tt er er you 're setting an example for the rest of the school , you know . |
| 3 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 4 | They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put |
| 5 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 6 | The deputy mayor said confidently , ‘ While I am absolutely certain that he will be found , if he is not found , this will be setting a precedent ’ ; since the mayoral office was instituted this is normally only a formality , with the mayor-elect waiting downstairs to be ‘ found ’ . |
| 7 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 8 | National organizations , which should in fact be setting an example in good sensitive design and leading the way in enhancing the urban environment , are all too often blind to local needs . |
| 9 | Do n't you think that Britain 's bosses should be setting an example , and paying themselves similar increases to that that they pay their workforce ? |
| 10 | Of course , Britain 's bosses have to be setting an example and obviously leadership has to emanate from the top , and is very often done by example . |
| 11 | George Hatfield , who runs the production turning course at Sydney Technical College in Australia , will again be setting the competition , and again we will be asking entrants to submit two pieces . |
| 12 | Both Slade J. and Devlin J. , respectively , feel that this would be setting the hurdle too low , and certainly Devlin J. in the Barnsley case wants the court ex post to be the yardstick by which to determine whether bias was likely to arise . |
| 13 | Rusk , who appeared to be setting the pace , had asked the Pentagon to prepare military plans as a matter of the greatest urgency ; and when NSC 64 was endorsed by the President on 24 April 1950 the US was committed , by all practical measures , to prevent the expansion of communist aggression in Southeast Asia in spite of the fact that less than a third of Vietnam was reckoned to be controlled by the legal government . |
| 14 | ‘ Guides should be setting the example and I think we should think about the way we put adventure first . ’ |
| 15 | At its next meeting , SSC would be setting the wage increase . |
| 16 | In this way you 'll be setting the pattern for 1992 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm setting a deadline to open the course in spring 1994 , but if we can have it open in the late summer of 93 that would be ideal , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 20 | If we were setting a nursery rhyme to music , it would be quite appropriate to use the verse metre and rhythms also in the music ; the result would be simple and naïve . |
| 21 | In front of the hut , several mothers were setting a trestle table with crockery and unwrapping polite little sandwiches . |
| 22 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 23 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 24 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 25 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 26 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 27 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 28 | I am setting a target of £9M for CAW 1988 . |
| 29 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 30 | While the Blue Streak saga was being played out , Macmillan and McLeod had been setting the stage for Britain 's final withdrawal from Empire . |