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

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1 Daewoo Electronics Co has set a conversion price of 14,400 Korean won on its par-priced $70m issue of convertible bonds due December 31 2008 and callable after May 18 1994 .
2 AN APPEAL from Down Under has set a North-East couple searching for a namesake .
3 It was not until Rewald 's 1944 publication , Degas , Works in Sculpture , that a fully illustrated catalogue appeared and it was another thirty years before Charles Millard 's The Sculpture of Edgar Degas attempted to set the work in a wider context .
4 David Boon helped set the foundation for the innings with a solid 40 and Dean Jones finished unbeaten on 48 as Australia won with two overs to spare .
5 The North-East network has set a target that 90pc of short distance trains for example from Newcastle to Sunderland should arrive within five minutes of scheduled times .
6 Middlesbrough Council has set the £353 bill based on a £21.6m budget .
7 … I had done this process before , once , but not under pressure , when Aunt Viv had set a combination on a new suitcase and then forgotten it … one-four-eight , one-four-nine … my face sweating , my fingers slipping on the tiny wheels from haste … one-five-zero , one-five-one …
8 But Kim Basinger has set a new standard by buying her own town .
9 There has been no unity ; in fact , the Welsh Rugby Union has set an atrocious example of disunity , and the national side caught the mood .
10 Now Alvar Fañez Minaya had set the host in order and while the Bishop Don Hieronymo and Gil Diaz led away the body of the Cid , and Doña Ximena , and the baggage , he fell upon the Moors .
11 Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story .
12 A soft November swell has set the tables rattling metallically at one another across the bar .
13 Canadian veteran Grant Connell had set the stage for Nestor in more ways than one .
14 Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future .
15 Those with a taste for Machiavellian plots have suggested that maybe Mr Li has set a trap for Mr Zhu by leaving him in charge at a time when he will have to tackle the delicate problems of an over-heating economy .
16 So we invoked that agreement , and Charlie said Winter Garden had set a precedent and we said No it had n't , it had just been a Cold War expedient and those days were over .
17 ( The East Germans had set the mark at 2.34 to the rouble , instead of 1.70 , for all COMECON trade , while the Czechoslovak move took the crown 's rate from 13 to 20 to the rouble for trade with East Germany . )
18 Commissioner Gattrell had set a high standard .
19 TEESDALE District Council agreed to set the poll tax at £242.23 compared to £169.66 last year a 42pc increase of £72.57 .
20 So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight .
21 Sandy Lyle had set the fashion for getting home in two from there when he won in 1988 and though Couples did not , like Lyle , make a birdie , he was only a whisker away from it .
22 The homework assignment involves setting a task that they would not normally do .
23 Chancellor Norman Lamont has set a monitoring range of 0–4pc for M0 , which measures notes and coins in circulation plus bank balances at the Bank of England .
24 Jed had led 8-5 at the turn , with Gregor McKechnie having set the scoreboard in motion after only two minutes with a penalty and Melrose responding after a period of sustained pressure from the home side , through a try by Gary Parker whose turn of speed caused problems for the Jed defence .
25 The Scottish Commonwealth Games Council has set a £250,000 target to send a record team of up to 160 to Victoria , Canada , next year .
26 For some two decades , from the solemnity of 2001 : A Space Odyssey to the broad spoof of Spaceballs ( 1987 ) and the engagingly camp whimsy of Earth Girls Are Easy ( 1988 ) , space movies have set the pace for the development of special effects .
27 My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships .
28 In some instances unions had set a limit on the size of the temporary labour force expressed as a proportion of the total or the regular labour force , and if this limit was exceeded an equivalent number of temporary workers would have to be upgraded to permanent status .
29 The interpretation of Mannheim 's project that von Schelting initiated set the scene for its incorporation into mainstream functionalist sociology .
30 If Gloucestershire County Council does set a budget above Government limits , tomorrow will mark the start of round two between Whitehall and County Hall .
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