Example sentences of "to be set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Rusk , who appeared to be setting the pace , had asked the Pentagon to prepare military plans as a matter of the greatest urgency ; and when NSC 64 was endorsed by the President on 24 April 1950 the US was committed , by all practical measures , to prevent the expansion of communist aggression in Southeast Asia in spite of the fact that less than a third of Vietnam was reckoned to be controlled by the legal government .
2 Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either .
3 Of course , Britain 's bosses have to be setting an example and obviously leadership has to emanate from the top , and is very often done by example .
4 Firstly , because the PRS has a carved top , the gap from the underside of the bridgeplate to the table may need to be set a fraction more than ″ , depending upon the amount of ‘ pull up ’ required on the tremolo .
5 Against the benefits has to be set the loss of sovereignty .
6 Against this has to be set the fact that in times of high inflation the real value of company debt diminishes over time .
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