Example sentences of "be set [art] " in BNC.

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1 Dancers on stage must establish their relationship to each other and to those who enter and also the particular way they are to set the action or dance going by initiating the phrasing , style and expressiveness of the choreographic design to be unfolded .
2 ‘ My visits to the church are to set an example to the brute population of Chiguana .
3 Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction .
4 ‘ Oh livid , You 're setting a bad example to the troops , apparently . ’
5 Back To The Planet might appeal to a section of the so-called dregs of society , but they feel they 're setting a different agenda .
6 And they 're setting no prices .
7 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 .
8 ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’
9 They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put
10 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 .
11 The crown consists of two circlet crowns welded together and into which has been set a cloth-covered headpiece .
12 In this particular case , of course , I had been set a slightly extraordinary task , but I had nevertheless not been neglectful to incorporate ‘ margins ’ wherever possible .
13 The JMP-1 is an attractive 1U package , with what looks like a gold anodised front panel into which has been set a window for all the data controls .
14 Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself .
15 She 'd been set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled to the camp from neighbouring war-torn Mozambique .
16 I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding .
17 Once the standard has been set the court must decide whether the child 's health or development falls significantly short of this .
18 Much of the Unit 's current work is involved in setting , checking , distributing and marking the examination papers : almost 1100 different papers are set every year .
19 Into recesses in the wall are set a range of marvellous and enigmatic gadgets , clearly the products of some sophisticated science .
20 Most of Mareuil 's vineyards are set a little distance from the village on south-east-facing slopes immediately beneath Mutigny .
21 And I say that because as Mr touched on in his introduction , the West Yorkshire districts are set a methodology for the definition of their housing requirement , buy R P G two .
22 In my view many manufactured nets are skimped on width with the result that when they are set the necessary amount of slack within the net can only be achieved by the sacrifice of adequate height .
23 As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg .
24 Round the floor of the valley are set the entrances to the tombs .
25 Their purpose would be to set a timetable for the conversion of British cars to low-octane fuel .
26 One would be to set a test with items exemplifying the criterion .
27 Firstly , because the PRS has a carved top , the gap from the underside of the bridgeplate to the table may need to be set a fraction more than ″ , depending upon the amount of ‘ pull up ’ required on the tremolo .
28 A practice with more patients needing expensive medicines will be set a larger amount .
29 Against this must be set a non-response about twice that for a random sample involving house calls .
30 One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing .
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