Example sentences of "[noun] had set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it . |
| 2 | Burun had set the target back in its original position , an easy shot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Moon had set the target early in the day . |
| 6 | Frau Schmidt had set a table in front of the open fire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Canadian veteran Grant Connell had set the stage for Nestor in more ways than one . |
| 9 | But the 1298 claim had set a precedent which was to be used again — especially by Edward III . |
| 10 | The offer of a free suit to Pevrolensky clinched the deal , and a shared vodka had set the seal on their minor piece of blat . |
| 11 | Government had to set the example . |
| 12 | The Stewarts suffered a sequence of disasters which would almost suggest that some evil magician had set a curse upon the entire house . |
| 13 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 14 | Nails , unlike Jazz and Hoomey , looked just as weedy as when they had started their training — so much so , in fact , that his puny appearance along with his new , apparent docility had set the school 's pastoral care department into action . |
| 15 | My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships . |
| 16 | Mackenzie 's men had to set the traps themselves . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Prisons had now reached a turning point and the Woolf Report into the Strangeways riots had set the scene for dramatic reform , Mr Clarke said . |
| 19 | Or , if an old inhabitant , and you had to consider this , although he hated to think of Mouncy Street and Decimus Street and Paradise Street in this connection , then some twist , some accident , some encounter had set the killer off . |
| 20 | ( 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 . ) |
| 21 | … 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 … |
| 22 | The courts had set the sum he should pay for his child by his first marriage at seventeen pounds fifty . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 25 | Mr Kinnock said the Prime Minister had set the Madrid conditions for entry , they had not been met , so she 'd caved in , he added . |
| 26 | 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 . |