Example sentences of "[noun] [is] set [art] " in BNC.

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1 This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date .
2 Everyone who is made a priest is set the following ‘ weighty Office and Charge ’ at his Ordination Service :
3 Therefore part of the appraisal is setting the target to be competent in the job .
4 You also need to allow headroom by leaving a little space between the top edge of the frame and the subject 's head , except for big c.lose-ups when the rule is to set the head so that the eyes come at about two-thirds of the height of the picture .
5 You could make complicated calculations , but an alternative is to set the blade for cutting the segments flat , but to hold the plank at the desired angle as you cut .
6 Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable .
7 Against this version of criticism of law is set a vision of another mechanism of dispute resolution which is cosy and friendly , in which there are no winners and losers .
8 NEXT loop is to set the loop variable to a value equal to the limit value and then GOTO to the NEXT statement .
9 Now organiser Belfast City Council is setting a target of 110,000 participants for the challenge against Rostock .
10 if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would .
11 Its aim is to set the terms by which countries would move reciprocally to a more open market in defence trade , eliminating discriminatory laws and procurement practices and introducing some openness into the awarding of contracts .
12 If , however , a group is set an ambiguous task with an uncertain outcome and with little previous experience to draw on it is unlikely to succeed unless it operates as a team at the skilful level .
13 Each authority is set a ‘ grant related expenditure assessment ’ ( GREA ) based on computation by the Department of the Environment of how much each authority needs to spend to achieve a common level of services with other authorities of the same type .
14 And their role is to set the objectives and priorities for the team and to impose shape or pattern on discussions and activities .
15 If no time limit is set the work tends to be unfocused .
16 A better and more accurate method is to set the edit-in point on the source-tape early by the amount of the backspace , so that the true edit-in point reaches the playback head just as the record-machine completes the backspace and starts to record .
17 São Vicente is set a little way inland where the valley is wider and sheltered from the sea winds .
18 The second objective is to set an agenda for discussions ( in a seminar or workshop ) which will facilitate collaboration between existing bibliographic agencies and to suggest new means for the collection of data on African scholarship so that it might be more widely known .
19 Beyond that , he says that the rediscovery of the lessons of shamanism and the power of psychedelics is setting the scene for a general Archaic Revival , which will see a return to the magical knowledge of tribal times .
20 Well the R Y A is Britain 's National Authority for the sport of sailing , simple as that , we look after every aspect of sailing and powerboating but our particular role in training is to set the syllabi pre to the courses , to train the instructors and to make sure the standard of teaching in every centre is up to scratch .
21 Dec 18 1982 ‘ Next year they 'll be battling it out with Wham ! ’ said one Gavin Martin of Glasgow 's Set The Tone .
22 There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example .
23 CHRISTIE 'S SET an auction record for Islamic metalwork on Tuesday when it sold a silver inlaid brass casket for £242,000 .
24 If region R undertakes programmes that create spillovers for region S , then , following Boadway and Wildasin ( 1984 ) , the optimal decision is to set the provision of that good at the quantity where where
25 When the net is set the top and bottom lines are tight , but the net itself remains slack .
26 A mnemonic for this phenomenon is to set the first and second fingers and thumb of the left hand at right angles to one another .
27 Win or lose , the important thing for Vicini is to set an example of calmness to his side , to remove some of the pressure of the nation 's extravagant expectations .
28 Win or lose , the important thing for Vicini is to set an example of calmness to his side , to remove some of the pressure of the nation 's extravagant expectations .
29 In such a case , we would suspect that the bridle is setting the kite at too steep an angle .
30 The first job when plugging into the Acousticube is to set the ‘ gain' controls to the proper level for a strong , clean sound .
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