Example sentences of "[be] setting [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight they 're setting up a road check in the area where he was murdered . |
| 2 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 3 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 4 | His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation . |
| 5 | The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year . |
| 6 | Orion is setting in the west ; Sirius is out of view , though Procyon and the Twins remain , and Aldebaran is still above the horizon . |
| 7 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |
| 8 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 9 | The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood . |
| 10 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |
| 11 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |