Example sentences of "set [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 2 | Central government is there to set the boundaries to local government activity , to give advice , to set minimum standards and give financial assistance , especially to poorer areas , but local authorities have a distinct responsibility to develop services in their own way , setting their own priorities . |
| 3 | It is always difficult to set the bounds to an industry — to determine where one industry 's activities end and another industry 's activities begin . |
| 4 | The alternative , as he saw it , was that the Americans would take over the Empire , while Britain exhausted herself trying to set the continent to rights . |
| 5 | Some manufacturers supply a wood or plastic template in their kits which will enable you to set the pitch to the recommended range . |
| 6 | Rob Collister , president of Britain 's mountain guides , has made a plea for guides to set the example to the climbing community of the virtues of adventure climbing over convenience climbing . |
| 7 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 8 | The basic idea ( see Figure 9.2 ) was that members agreed to maintain no more than a 2¼ per cent band around all their respective currencies so as to set a limit to the degree to which exchange values could fluctuate ( the ‘ snake ’ ) . |
| 9 | The Prince feels he has a responsibility as a landowner to set an example to others , always to take the humane or the conservationist route above the straight commercial . |
| 10 | At this time the Party especially urged its officials to set an example to the country by rescuing orphaned or abandoned children who were destitute as a result of war and , in Moldavia , famine . |
| 11 | The tears are thought to be caused by her pain as she looks at the sins of the world , and are meant to inspire the watchers to repent and to set an example to others . |
| 12 | ‘ My visits to the church are to set an example to the brute population of Chiguana . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( Note : in the first situation , Offline will first set the state to ‘ Available for inspection ’ if the end of tape is reached ) . |
| 15 | If , for example , you do n't use letter-headed stationery , you can set the program to automatically insert these details into all your letters . |
| 16 | And the provision for the county is well over the allocations in the structure plan already , but the County Council , sent observations to the District Council to say , We 're not going to object to this particular er windfall site coming forward for a hundred and sixty houses , because it 's recycling existing urban land , and in that case we can set the policy to one side . |
| 17 | Set the lock to N.N and increase the stitch size . |
| 18 | METHOD : Set the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 . |
| 19 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 20 | Cue a sound tape by recording a guide-track to indicate where each section of the music should start and end : set the tape to a start-mark ; set tape recorder to record-pause ; set the video tape to play-pause on the first frame of picture ; release both machines together calling out music cues into a microphone connected to the tape recorder while you watch the pictures on screen . |
| 21 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 22 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 23 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places . |
| 26 | Perhaps you could begin by taking a wide-angle shot or two of the house and the garden , so set the zoom to wide angle and select your first shooting position . |
| 27 | Switch the camcorder back to record mode , check the white balance and set the focus to auto so that you can concentrate all your attention on the picture . |
| 28 | The 1984 Rates Act introduced a constitutional change of the utmost importance — the principle that central government could set a limit to the amount of taxation a local authority could levy . |
| 29 | ‘ I set no bounds to my ambitions for Britain' |
| 30 | In his final set-piece speech of the campaign at a Wembley rally , the Prime Minister said : ‘ I set no bounds to my ambitions for this country or its people . |