Example sentences of "set [art] world [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the three papers was going to set the world on fire . |
| 2 | There are certain bars where artists and writers are always to be seen , talking animatedly as they set the world to rights . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was uncovered by Dr Gordon Corbett , formerly of London 's Natural History Museum , and has set the world of entomology a-buzz . |
| 6 | But if Rhodes has n't set the world on fire with his batting , he certainly has with his fielding . |
| 7 | And now we have Sliver which was the subject of much wrangling and has n't exactly set the world on fire . |
| 8 | COMMENT the editor sets the world to rights |
| 9 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 10 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 11 | That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights . |
| 12 | A smashing day for sitting around with your favourite folk swapping stories and generally setting the world to rights . |
| 13 | The Wall Street crash , and the collapse of efforts to reconstruct the nineteenth-century liberal international order , set the world on the path to a second global war . |