Example sentences of "if [pers pn] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd .
2 Even if she sets a track record she would already have been upstaged by the people 's champion .
3 And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah .
4 I says well you can if you set the alarm the clock !
5 You can have more fun though if you set the level of symmetry higher than 1 .
6 The garter carriage can be used to knit a ribbed welt , but always remember that if you set the garter carriage to knit a 24 row welt and then leave it , that is all it will achieve .
7 It may well be that if you set the penalties so high , and if you can have a hundred per cent detection , then there may well be a deterrent element in these crimes , but basically the law is clearing up a mess , and the mess has occurred , and then the law comes along and does the best it can .
8 If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics .
9 If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges .
10 If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century .
11 ‘ The theory is that if we set the lead the passengers will overcome their inhibitions and join in , ’ Niall added .
12 They felt that if it set the wages of very poor people , the next thing it would do would be to start setting the wages of trade unionists .
13 In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view .
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