Example sentences of "set before [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was n't that a dainty dish to set before a queen ( king ) |
| 2 | Lady Diana Cooper ( then in her eighty-eighth year ) who attended the event , said in her inimitable way : ‘ Was n't that a mighty feast to set before a King ! ’ |
| 3 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 4 | Given a military problem , Osbern of Eu and his men resembled nothing so much , Cormac thought , as a starving man with a knife set before a belly-piece of fat pork and an ale-horn . |
| 5 | However , it was also acknowledged that the task set before the filmmakers was so large that it defied reducing the complex series of events into a simple formula drama . |
| 6 | Sometimes one set of sculptors would be finishing an already countermanded set before the news of yet more changes reached them . |
| 7 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 8 | Three long rows of chairs are set before the stage , and there are tables with candelabras , goblets and punch bowls ( the glass is cracked and filthy ) . |
| 9 | 4 Parties aim to win office and they compete for the support of the electorate at the polls on the basis of programmes of policies , or manifestos , that are set before the electorate for their judgement . |
| 10 | The result will be a governing coalition for which no one voted , and with policies ( born of the necessity for compromise to effect the coalition ) which were never set before the electorate for their approval and support . |
| 11 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |
| 12 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 13 | BRITTEN 'S Miss Wordsworth , primmest of Suffolk schoolma'ms , would no doubt have balked at setting before the public eye any but her most promising music pupils . |
| 14 | The partnership sensibly place their account of five Seidl setting before the Rellstab and Heine sings . |
| 15 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |