Example sentences of "to set [art] good " in BNC.

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1 Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example .
2 There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example .
3 Have to set a good example .
4 The first of these was the landowning class , the nobility and gentry ; the leaders of the community , whose duty it was to set a good example to the rest , to be ‘ the helpers and releuers of poore tenantes , and also be the maynteynors and supporters of all poore folkes ’ .
5 Well we used to play that in the street you see , have the lampposts , the top of the yard and there , there and have to set a good target rounders .
6 ‘ There 's a speed limit in this city , sir , and as an officer of the law it 's my duty to set a good example . ’
7 If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message .
8 I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil .
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