Example sentences of "be set [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | By the end of the nineties , we could be set for the first Oscars awarded to synthetic actors . |
2 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
3 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York . |
4 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
5 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
6 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |