Example sentences of "was set on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley .
2 In the 1980s , this country was set on a course towards industrial efficiency and competitiveness from which the whole of British business will profit once more , when the recession ends .
3 There was Lodowyck 's universal language , for instance , in which a sign for a radical ( eg primitive verb , to light ) was set on a musical stave , with signs for augmentation leg that wherewith the thing is acted ) set adjacent to it .
4 Neither the exactions of the Versailles Treaty nor the creation of a republican form of government rooted out the nationalist old guard or revolutionised the German social structure ; within 15 years , Germany was set on a course of revanche .
5 For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment .
6 I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill .
7 Her oval face with its large dark eyes and high forehead was set on a long , graceful neck .
8 It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one .
9 The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’
10 A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it .
11 Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ .
12 The Villa Faalifu was set on the edge of Tala-Tala , and the sight of its opulent exterior almost left me gasping .
13 She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground .
14 Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations .
15 No limit was set on the number or size of political parties , although each was prohibited from receiving more than 20 per cent of its budget in the form of grants or donations from abroad , and each was required to pay a registration fee of 1,000,000 francs CFA ( approximately US$3,900 ) .
16 Dinner was set on the patio .
17 From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland .
18 Lunch was set on the terrace , as he 'd promised , and Luce let him draw out a chair for her .
19 The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains .
20 The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard .
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