Example sentences of "[vb past] set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitby Way vandals unsuccessfully tried to set a car ablaze by throwing a jar containing flammable liquid and lighted rag at it . |
| 2 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |
| 3 | Talks with the Estonians , however , failed to set a date for the start of the troops ' departure . |
| 4 | The Presidents of the four member countries , Uruguay , Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay , agreed to set a ceiling of 20 per cent for common trade tariffs on most commodities , in preparation for the complete elimination of tariffs by the end of January 1994 . |
| 5 | TEESDALE District Council agreed to set the poll tax at £242.23 compared to £169.66 last year a 42pc increase of £72.57 . |
| 6 | Officials see little need for early ‘ crisis ’ talks on the situation in Japan but believe that the G7 meeting on April 26 is almost certain to focus on the Japanese situation , with the International Monetary Fund expected to set the scene with new forecasts for the global economy . |
| 7 | His arrival seemed to set the conveyor belt in motion , and she lost all track of time as she dealt with one actor after another , flinching every time the door opened , yet aware of a peculiar emptiness when Dane failed to show up . |
| 8 | In a near-fatal aperçu , Armstrong 's comment on the civil servant 's need to be ‘ economical with the truth ’ seemed to set the seal on a growing process of encroachment on individual freedoms by a strong-minded , centralist government . |
| 9 | Finally the wool is removed , rinsed in water with salt added to set the dye , and dried in the sun . |
| 10 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 11 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 12 | Almost all the selected authorities ( despite loud protests ) set legal rates within the limits set by ministers ; and councillors in Lambeth — who delayed setting a rate to try and avoid compliance-were subsequently surcharged by the district auditor and disqualified as councillors . |
| 13 | A similar fate befell councillors in Liverpool who , although not rate-capped at the time , delayed setting a rate on the grounds that they would otherwise have to make large spending cuts or impose rate rises ( contrary to the ruling Labour group 's manifesto commitments ) to maintain expenditure within the block-grant regime ( Parkinson , 1985 ; Travers , 1986 , especially 164–77 ) . |
| 14 | Around the same time , he acted to set the procedure of constitutional reform in motion . |
| 15 | The Chairman of Aerospatiale , the French aerospace group , commented that the proposed merger ( together with that between Daimler Benz and Messerschmitt under consideration at the same time ) risked setting a trend towards diversified national groupings , which would make the task of creating a European aerospace industry , capable of competing with the US , more difficult . |
| 16 | Another climb guaranteed to set the pulse racing , is to the top of Suilven , and the walk out passes one of our favourite fishing locations , Fionn Loch , which lies below Suilven 's towering heights . |
| 17 | Berger now had time to restore the fuel consumption figure to a more acceptable level but when Schumacher — also on new tyres — began to set a string of faster laps , he was forced to speed up . |
| 18 | The discouraging effects of prolonged unemployment , experience in the labour market with employers and official intermediaries , public statements by political and economic commentators , politicians , and employers about the future of employment are all part of a social process of exclusion , which probably began to set the agenda in the minds of individual older workers in the After Redundancy study even before the redundancy itself took place . |
| 19 | They began to set the table , growing relaxed and easy , enjoying the formality of the room , when Moran came in again from the fields . |
| 20 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 21 | The interpretation of Mannheim 's project that von Schelting initiated set the scene for its incorporation into mainstream functionalist sociology . |
| 22 | The Tories ' overwhelming victory in 1987 appeared to set the seal upon the triumph of bourgeois capitalism . |
| 23 | The Presidents of Burkina , Côte d'Ivoire , The Gambia , Nigeria , and Togo participated in the meeting , which appeared to set the seal on 19 months of civil war estimated to have cost 15,000 lives including that of former President Samuel Doe . |
| 24 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 25 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 26 | ‘ I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you . |
| 27 | Dunlop continued to set the pace when winning the 250cc McBride Fashions Irish Championship race from Davy Johnston with Stephen Hazlett , third . |
| 28 | Councillors heard the authority had to set a budget of £11,614,000 for the new financial year and the calculations were based on a community charge to be levied on 74,014 residents . |
| 29 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 30 | Central to Agricultural Relief , as with the other elements of the popular movement , remained the belief that the community had to set the agenda of priorities and participate in seeking solutions . |