Example sentences of "it set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uproar , laughter , lots of silly grins and had it set a trend ? |
| 2 | If the constant marginal costs differ , then only the firm with the lowest marginal cost is left in the market and it sets a price just below the marginal cost of the next-to-lowest cost firm . |
| 3 | It sets a target of 80 per cent of plastics and paper , and 90 per cent of glass , tin and aluminium , to be recycled by 1 July 1995 . |
| 4 | The scheme is being widely debated within television because it sets a precedent for other companies . |
| 5 | It sets a guide value ( maximum ) for nitrate of 50 mg/litre but permits member states to apply for permission to grant ‘ derogations ’ ( exemptions ) where the levels arise from geological factors ( ’ the nature and structure of the ground ’ ) , or ‘ exceptional meteorological conditions ’ . |
| 6 | It sets the scene and then helps us work together to improve our situation . |
| 7 | It sets the scene perhaps for it said it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and he adds no sorrow to it . |
| 8 | It sets the tone of debate . |
| 9 | It sets the standard , welcomes the bride into a new hareem and displays the promise of wealth the groom and his family have to offer . |
| 10 | Accompaniment is like the background to a painting — it sets the mood of the whole . |
| 11 | It 's not the best of the campaigns but it sets the parameters , ’ he says.The message from the ‘ Mouth ’ is far more strident and inspiring . |
| 12 | I have gone into this at some length because it sets the stage for what Wittgenstein says . |
| 13 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 14 | It sets the target of reducing atmospheric pollution by 40 per cent over the next decade , and of stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at their present level by the year 2000 ( fast becoming the widely accepted consensus target — see EDs 39 and 40 ) . |
| 15 | It was one of those occasions that had everybody looking , both staff and the queue and it set a mood for the day — and , indeed , the week . |
| 16 | ‘ When Brunner Mond acquired the soda ash business , it set a goal of becoming the world 's best . |
| 17 | It set a total of 357 000 immigrants in any one year ; and each nationality was given a quota , fixed at 35% of the foreign-born of that nationality resident in American in 1910 . |
| 18 | Although it set a standard , model housing of any description could only touch the fringes of the problem ; the vast majority of the poor continued to live in houses far from model . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 21 | For Mrs Thatcher , at loggerheads with many of her own party over European issues , this summit was crucial , as it set the tone for debates leading up to 1992 — not only for European unification but for the next British election in which Europe will be a deciding factor . |
| 22 | The first day was always important , it set the tone for the whole year . |
| 23 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 24 | It set the tone for the others by being massive — 500 pages in A4 format . |
| 25 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 26 | Coupled with the publication of the BCF theory in 1951 , it set the scene for many important developments in the theory and practice of crystallisation . |
| 27 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 28 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 29 | If the offer is likely to be contested then the offeror will not be able to use the target 's board as a barometer to help it set the price . |
| 30 | Whatever it was that had triggered his mental alarm system , it set the adrenaline pumping into his bloodstream , and snapped his mind and body into a state of combat readiness . |