Example sentences of "may set [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So , too , does some guess about where the government may set a capping limit .
2 Stack-oriented computers may set a condition code in the top element of the stack as a result of a test or comparison instruction ; a jump instruction is then provided to jump conditional on the state of this top element ( removing the element after testing ) .
3 It will be the show 's British premiere , but critics have expressed fears that the long run may set a precedent , making the National like any other West End theatre .
4 However , its closure , ordered under new legislation which insists that the best available technology be used to combat pollution , may set a precedent for hundreds of other incinerators across the country .
5 Having established the point that it is the patient who ultimately may set the limits to the doctor 's intervention , it is now necessary to consider the duties which arise in the usual circumstances in which treatment is consented to .
6 Or it may set the direction of a programme of research , as when the Gestalt psychologists extended their primarily visual concept of ‘ insight ’ into a gestalt ( literally ‘ shape ’ ) from perception to thinking .
7 If proceedings are commenced by the wrong originating process , eg by summons rather than by originating application , such a breach of the rules is not necessarily fatal — thecourt may set the proceedings aside or it may allow them to be amended and give such directions as it thinks fit ( Ord 37 , r 5 ) .
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