Example sentences of "[be] set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | National organizations , which should in fact be setting an example in good sensitive design and leading the way in enhancing the urban environment , are all too often blind to local needs . |
| 32 | Do n't you think that Britain 's bosses should be setting an example , and paying themselves similar increases to that that they pay their workforce ? |
| 33 | Of course , Britain 's bosses have to be setting an example and obviously leadership has to emanate from the top , and is very often done by example . |
| 34 | George Hatfield , who runs the production turning course at Sydney Technical College in Australia , will again be setting the competition , and again we will be asking entrants to submit two pieces . |
| 35 | Both Slade J. and Devlin J. , respectively , feel that this would be setting the hurdle too low , and certainly Devlin J. in the Barnsley case wants the court ex post to be the yardstick by which to determine whether bias was likely to arise . |
| 36 | Rusk , who appeared to be setting the pace , had asked the Pentagon to prepare military plans as a matter of the greatest urgency ; and when NSC 64 was endorsed by the President on 24 April 1950 the US was committed , by all practical measures , to prevent the expansion of communist aggression in Southeast Asia in spite of the fact that less than a third of Vietnam was reckoned to be controlled by the legal government . |
| 37 | ‘ Guides should be setting the example and I think we should think about the way we put adventure first . ’ |
| 38 | At its next meeting , SSC would be setting the wage increase . |
| 39 | In this way you 'll be setting the pattern for 1992 . |
| 40 | Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm setting a deadline to open the course in spring 1994 , but if we can have it open in the late summer of 93 that would be ideal , ’ he said . |
| 42 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 43 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 44 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 45 | Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment . |
| 46 | At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings . |
| 47 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |
| 48 | It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task . |
| 49 | Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes . |
| 50 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 51 | If we were setting a nursery rhyme to music , it would be quite appropriate to use the verse metre and rhythms also in the music ; the result would be simple and naïve . |
| 52 | In front of the hut , several mothers were setting a trestle table with crockery and unwrapping polite little sandwiches . |
| 53 | The four of them , ignoring him , were setting the trolley up again , jabbering among themselves in Kamalian . |
| 54 | The Americans were setting the pace . |
| 55 | ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace . |
| 56 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 57 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 58 | I am setting a target of £9M for CAW 1988 . |
| 59 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 60 | While the Blue Streak saga was being played out , Macmillan and McLeod had been setting the stage for Britain 's final withdrawal from Empire . |