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 . |