Example sentences of "if [pers pn] set [art] " in BNC.

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1 Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd .
2 But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive .
3 You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on .
4 And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah .
5 The garter carriage can be used to knit a ribbed welt , but always remember that if you set the garter carriage to knit a 24 row welt and then leave it , that is all it will achieve .
6 If you set the right standards and she knows that she ca n't fool you , you 'll be all right .
7 You can have more fun though if you set the level of symmetry higher than 1 .
8 I says well you can if you set the alarm the clock !
9 It may well be that if you set the penalties so high , and if you can have a hundred per cent detection , then there may well be a deterrent element in these crimes , but basically the law is clearing up a mess , and the mess has occurred , and then the law comes along and does the best it can .
10 If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics .
11 If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges .
12 If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century .
13 ‘ The theory is that if we set the lead the passengers will overcome their inhibitions and join in , ’ Niall added .
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