Example sentences of "[coord] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They teemed with wonders : individuals blessed with attributes that would have made them , in this , the Fifth Dominion , fit for sainthood , or burning , or both ; cults possessed of secrets that would overturn in a moment the dogmas of faith and physics alike ; beauty that might blind the sun , or set the moon dreaming of fertility . |
| 2 | He goes on : ‘ Since these costs … would have to be paid by a grant … and since a grant of above £10 million requires affirmative resolution [ and thus debate ] in the House , it seems there are two choices : to cap the BAe grant at £9.5 million ; or set the ceiling at £13.5 million and for you to accept the greater risk of challenge and thus repayment being required . ’ |
| 3 | She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping . |
| 4 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 5 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 6 | What Miandad 's 59 did yesterday was to frustrate England 's struggling bowlers and to set a platform from which Pakistan can give themselves a match-winning lead today . |
| 7 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 8 | ‘ The rights issue will substantially increase our ability to fund recovery and to set the Group on course for long-term growth . |
| 9 | The tears are thought to be caused by her pain as she looks at the sins of the world , and are meant to inspire the watchers to repent and to set an example to others . |
| 10 | Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the DC DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL . |
| 11 | Re-run LIFESPAN RDBI and set the DC DETAILS transfer category to INCREMENTAL . |
| 12 | Editor , — As B W Lloyd and P Barnett emphasise , communication between general practitioners and hospital specialists is of utmost importance — the letter remains the most significant factor in this and often it is this initial form of contact which may determine the care a patient receives and set the tune of the partnership between the two doctors . |
| 13 | Julia waited to give Raffaella the bad news until she had delivered her lesson , led a halting conversation in English about the future of Italy , handed out the previous week 's exercises that she had marked , and set the work for the next lesson . |
| 14 | But Finnan was true to his word , and there was beer that night to drink when they had beached and set the horses to graze ashore , and lit their fires on the bank . |
| 15 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 16 | ‘ Besides , he 's wanting to take an army to England , to overthrow Henry Tudor and set the Duke of York on his rightful throne . |
| 17 | Sam Rankin , ‘ The Dyer ’ for Douglas Reyburn , and Douglas Carlyle , Dye House Supervisor , choose and set the programmes on the computer . |
| 18 | From that time until Henry 's death he printed all statutes and proclamations with exemplary skill and efficiency , on at least one occasion being required to work at night and set the type himself ( Letters & Papers Henry VIII , 7 , no. 1415 ) . |
| 19 | But Jones is a snappy player in every sense , and set the tone for an afternoon of petulant silliness with a Gatting-like finger-wagging retort to one of Keith Griffiths 's decisions . |
| 20 | Its success checked sanitary dominance and set the tone of moral regulation for at least a generation . |
| 21 | The Chairman set the scene by immediately putting the College staff at ease and set the tone of the meeting as friendly , efficient , and business like . |
| 22 | It would be up to God to wind up the clockwork and set the universe going in any way He wanted . |
| 23 | The Congress subsequently agreed to grant Yeltsin emergency powers to deal with the crisis situation in the republic and set the date for the direct election of a President of Russia [ see pp. 38130-31 ] . |
| 24 | John Major put the region 's candidates and campaigners out of their misery at 1.00 p.m. and set the date . |
| 25 | Of course , the marginal revenue of Division A is simply the transfer price as it can only sell to Division B. So we should work out A 's marginal costs at the required level of group activity and set the transfer price equal to that . |
| 26 | He advanced into the room and set the candle down on a desk . |
| 27 | This will clear up any mysteries from this morning 's lesson and set the scene for tonight 's exercise . |
| 28 | A Soviet writer argued in 1979 that the growing participation of Latin American states in the Non-Aligned Movement directly affected the character of relations in the inter-American system and set the question of its ‘ basic restructuring ’ on the agenda . |
| 29 | It 's true that no one came in , but I think someone must have lifted the latch and set the door ajar , and then after all drawn back and closed it again , hearing the voices within and not wanting to interrupt . |
| 30 | She retreated to one of the dressing rooms across the corridor , switched off the lights , and set the door to give her an angle of view without much risk of being seen . |