Example sentences of "set [art] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 2 | Like King Arthur of the Britons , Charles the Great , Caroli Magni , changed from being a historical person into a legendary ideal — the great ruler who set the world aright , and encouraged men and women to live by a fusion of spiritual and material principles . |
| 3 | The Wall Street crash , and the collapse of efforts to reconstruct the nineteenth-century liberal international order , set the world on the path to a second global war . |
| 4 | Williams from Didcot in Oxfordshire the champions of 92 are the favourites for 93 … but what will life be like without Mansell … will Prost be back to his best … can new boy Damon Hill set the world alight |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm glad it 's over , ’ said Reynolds , who set the world record of 43.29sec at Zurich in 1988 . |
| 6 | 1964 was the year of the Tokyo Olympics , where Abebe Bikila set a world record for the marathon in 2hrs 12mins 11.2secs and Ken Matthews of Great Britain won the 20km walk in 1hr 29mins 34.0secs . |
| 7 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 8 | Tony Simmons set a world age 16 best at Brache in 1965 , with 30:16 for six miles . |
| 9 | It was an electric car that first broke the 100 km/h barrier , when it set a world speed record of 104 km/h in 1898 . |
| 10 | After those championships she has her sights set on a more demanding six-day track event in Australia ; she set a world best for 538 miles at the equivalent event in 1990 . |
| 11 | The same auctioneer set a world record on 22 June for a Louis XV commode by Jacques Dubois which he sold for FFr1.4 million ( £148,936 ; $282,978 ) . |
| 12 | Sandra Voelker , from Germany , set a world best of 28.33sec in the 50m backstroke . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1991 Carl Lewis set a world record of 9.86 seconds for the 100 metre sprint . |