Example sentences of "set [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Returning , he set the two large pieces of the broken bowl to one side then began to sweep the tiny slivers of porcelain into a pile . |
2 | Andy Roberts set the Caribbean fast bowling conveyor belt in motion . |
3 | The government set the new minimum wage at 2,300 lei ( US$65 ) per month , but factory managers were given the power to determine wage policy for their own enterprises and could set pay levels above the minimum . |
4 | He set the little green alien on his shoulder and leaned on the console , looking out at the Perks . |
5 | The reigning world Formula One champion set a scorching 102.095 miles an hour around the streets of the Queensland holiday resort , clipping about two-tenths of a second off the previous record . |
6 | In the same year Italy set a new higher rate of customs duties just before a scheduled meeting of GATT was due to discuss tariff reductions . |
7 | Anglers Choice starlet Graham Metcalfe topped the proceedings for the second successive week and set a new five-hour best of 16–8–0 . |
8 | Great Britain international triple jumper Jonathan Edwards , who set a new 100 metres record in the North-east Championships at Middlesbrough , will renew his rivalry with Cramlington 's David Lawson , beaten by a metre in their clash at Clairville . |
9 | Fogarty won both Superbike races , and set a new absolute course record round the Portrush triangle circuit in the shortened North West 200 race . |
10 | NICK Price set a new two-round record score of 132 to take a two-stroke lead in the US Players Championship in Ponte Vedra , Florida . |
11 | In the end it was a bitter-sweet victory , as although he broke several British records at intermediate distances , and set a new British all-comers record , he missed breaking the British 6-day record of 623 miles , set by George Littlewood at Madison Square Garden in 1888 ! |
12 | John Regis set a new British record with 20.54 seconds . |
13 | Richard Mainwaring from Gloucestershire is the british barefoot water ski-ing champion for the ninth time … that 's a world record … he took the title in the Cotswold Water Park yesterday and set a new British record at the same time … |
14 | Richard Mainwaring from Gloucestershire is the british barefoot water ski-ing champion for the ninth time … that 's a world record … he took the title in the Cotswold Water Park yesterday and set a new British record at the same time … |
15 | The powerful 20-year-old from Wigan , who set a new British record of 44.47secs in Barcelona and went one better than Black by reaching the final , was second in 45.44secs to Barcelona bronze medallist , Kenyan Samson Kitur . |
16 | The powerful 20-year-old from Wigan , who set a new British record of 44.47secs in Barcelona and went one better than Black by reaching the final , was second in 45.44secs to Barcelona bronze medallist , Kenyan Samson Kitur . |
17 | The 19-year-old Liverpudlian , who set a new British record of 2.36m in Wuppertal eight days earlier , soared over a UK all-comers best 2.35m with such ease that it will surely persuade him to take his soaring talent to Toronto . |
18 | An important measure to encourage this trend was taken in October , when Iran 's central bank ( Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islam Iran ) doubled the foreign exchange quota available to all private-sector enterprises dealing with the public sector and set a new special exchange rate of $1.00=1,000 rials ( a fall from $1.00=1,250 rials ) . |
19 | BANBRIDGE youngster Peter Mulligan set a possible British record when he won the junior gents barebow category in yesterday 's NI Indoor Target Championships at Craigavon Leisure Centre . |
20 | The recent Indian Supreme Court judgement that the US Multlnational , Union Carbide , pay $470 million by way of compensation to the victims of the world 's largest industrial accident , elicited sharply polarized reactions and set a dangerous international precedent . |
21 | Bethan Fallon set a personal best of two minutes 15.6 seconds in the 800 metres , Joanna Mahoney scored a double in the 300 metres flat and hurdles . |
22 | I had had a very successful indoor season , set a British indoor record at 200 metres and a personal best at 60 metres , and gained my first individual international selection . |
23 | It was an unforgettable painting ; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments , so that the moment , and all such moments , could never be completely trivial again . |
24 | The EC Drinking Water Directive set a Maximum Admissible Concentration ( MAC ) of 50 ug/litre of lead in tapwater . |
25 | His work broke all the conventions of size , style , and technique ; his imagination lifted textbook material to the level of a flamboyant , romantic art and set a brave new standard for subsequent bird illustrators . |
26 | First published in 1978 , Streamline English set a whole new style in ELT coursebooks . |
27 | There 's nothing edible here , and if the adventurers go poking about when it should be perfectly obvious this place is a filthy , worthless mess , set a few Giant Rats on them . |