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

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1 Meanwhile , Hilary Murphy , who sets the questions , puts the final touches to Bob 's board .
2 Meanwhile , Hilary Murphy , who sets the questions , puts the final touches to Bob 's board .
3 In this paper the measure of who sets the objective for the lawyer is used .
4 All organisations are concerned with who makes decisions , who controls resources , who determines which issues are discussed , who sets the agenda and how is conflict between individuals and groups resolved .
5 Nursing in context — who sets the standards ?
6 The women 's champion , Paula Newby-Fraser , from Zimbabwe , who set a course record of 9hr 1min 1sec last year , is in good shape , having won at Nice in May .
7 Nineteen thirty-six , there was an active service unit who set a bomb or two off in London .
8 Being well known had certain disadvantages for anyone who set a value on privacy .
9 The 22-year-old Londoner , who set a world best in the 50m butterfly in Germany last weekend , held off Russia 's Olympic champion , Alex Popov , by exactly half a second with 21.6sec .
10 Oxfordshire County Council was required to pre-set the amount of money it wanted from the District Councils who set a rate .
11 These were the Cold Warriors who set the tone for the Fifties .
12 It was the intellectuals of the skilled , respectable working-class , in alliance with the local petty-bourgeoisie and small professional men ( the grocer , publican , magistrate , two doctors and the Anglican vicar ) , who set the tone in the village and orchestrated public opinion .
13 Hegel himself , regarded as one of the ‘ deflated balloons ’ of German philosophy by his former French admirer , Hippolyte Taine ( 1828–93 ) , went out of fashion in his native country , and the way in which ‘ the tiresome , conceited and mediocre epigones who set the tone among the educated German public ’ treated him moved Marx in the 1860s ‘ to declare myself publicly a disciple of that great thinker ’ .
14 I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ?
15 This anomaly is now seen to be largely explained by the intervention of the patron — the broker land agent — who set the objective for both lawyer and client in two of the three cases .
16 I 'm referring to the Russian stars Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov , who set the skating world alight as partners back in the early 1970s .
17 If Bowe was faithful to his own script for the fight , relentlessly unloading huge rights behind his calling card jabs , it was Holyfield who set the agenda as far as courage , determination and work rate was concerned .
18 Upstairs , in the first passage , are works by the artists who set the style for Rudolf 's court .
19 Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary .
20 Every child was given a kit of information and mementos from the local emergency services , fire , police and ambulance , public utilities and local councils who set the challenges .
21 We are in the season of Advent which , as we know , means the Coming — — the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ — and He , as we know also , was crucified by rulers who set the claims of the State above Him .
22 Talking about Jack , it was how he talked about Bert , how he talked about the men with whom he had this particular relationship : admiring , dependent , you could say passive … but who was it now who set the pace , making Bert go to Ireland , making Jack take them ?
23 In the closing decades of the nineteenth century it was moralists and feminists who set the pace in the field of sexual politics .
24 Incredibly even if the person who set the snare is found out they may be beyond the reach of the law
25 Although the way had been paved by an extraordinary cameo from Alan Wells that yielded 65 from 37 balls without the slightest hint of a slog , it was Stephenson the Bat who set the seal on a riveting charge , a remarkable overhead smash more suited to Boris Becker completing the job in unforgettable fashion .
26 There can be no doubt that it was Ine who set the seal on the creation of the historic kingdom of Wessex and defined its horizons as a Christian realm in which monasticism and men of letters flourished amid active involvement in an overseas mission .
27 ‘ You were the one who set the pattern when he first came to live with us , remember ?
28 ‘ I expect everyone to go at least a second faster tomorrow , ’ said Mansell , who set the record in the penultimate lap of the session .
29 The people who set the standards are no longer the older generation , the people who have lived their lives and come to some judgement on what life is all about .
30 It 's now the younger people , the people who make fortunes , like Richard Branson of Virgin , or even tennis stars , who set the standards .
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