Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put yourself in Fifties or Sixties costume , throw in a couple of vintage cars to set the scene , and you 've got it made . |
| 2 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |
| 3 | In the following decades Cook 's eye-catching posters and brochure covers set the travel industry 's style for selling dreams , as did his first travel magazine The Excursionist which gave details of Cook 's tours and was published regularly in worldwide editions for almost a century . |
| 4 | Chintz armchairs and well-worn rugs set the tone . |
| 5 | SIX YEARS AGO , at a conference in Argentina the United Nations set a target for the 1980s : clean water and sanitation for all . |
| 6 | We have now won 15 FA Cup ties against League clubs to set a record — but this was without doubt our most comprehensive performance . |
| 7 | Some of them sat on the grass , smoked cigarettes and watched the organizers ' bumbling attempts to set the rally in progress . |
| 8 | UTOPIA has ideas for the improvement of twentieth-century life while NUMEROSO is suspicious of attempts to set the future into a mould , however good it may seem . |
| 9 | WHEAT was cut , ground to flour and baked into bread in just 21 minutes to set a world record at Heckington , Lincs , yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll agree that on the For side you could put the things you listed the other day , that he has all the skills to set the trap and the perfect place to do it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Home ’ in Victorian fiction , corresponding to the actual shift in population , is mainly in the city or its suburbs , where there are no great houses to set the standard ; and even when characters do live in the country , great houses no longer dominate rural communities in the same way . |
| 12 | But Mr Vadim Medvedev also indicated there were no plans to set the record straight about what happened at the December 9 meeting of the Central Committee — which was by all accounts a turbulent one — by publishing the minutes . |
| 13 | Whatever recording system was used by the parents to set the baseline should be maintained during the period of intervention . |
| 14 | As a growing child , three simple experiences set the pattern of joy for the rest of Lewis 's life . |
| 15 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 16 | Since the companies set the price , they determined both the amount of profit per bbl from extracting it and the amount of tax the ‘ host government ’ could levy on the process . |
| 17 | From the 1850s , with stations moving to inner-city sites , station hotels assumed palatial aspects and the railway companies set the standard for others to follow . |
| 18 | KENNY Dalglish yesterday brushed aside talk about the prospect of unbeaten Blackburn Rovers setting the pace in the Premier League . |
| 19 | We will issue factories and power stations with licences setting a ceiling on permitted emissions of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide . |
| 20 | We will issue factories and power stations with licences setting a ceiling on permitted emissions of pollutants . |
| 21 | As with the skip technique , we can allow instructions other than tests and comparisons to set the condition code , with the added advantage over skipping that the setting of the condition code can be ignored where necessary . |
| 22 | At this time the Party especially urged its officials to set an example to the country by rescuing orphaned or abandoned children who were destitute as a result of war and , in Moldavia , famine . |
| 23 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 24 | But the bursting grenades set the heather on fire , forcing the Highland right to withdraw , and after a brisk fire-fight lasting some three hours the whole Jacobite line took to its heels . |
| 25 | Compton sale of Japanese swords sets a world record for total value |
| 26 | The touch of his fingers set every nerve-ending on fire . |
| 27 | But later the deputies set the stage for possible compromise by agreeing to debate a referendum after all . |
| 28 | If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure . |
| 29 | In traditional trade theory , rules set a framework within which the market , and not governments , determines what amounts of goods and services are sold in any territory . |
| 30 | The allegedly second class Scots gave an undeniably first rate account of themselves in a first half in which the Germans set the mood for the evening with the quality of their possession play . |