Example sentences of "he set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Will he set an example by persuading the Prime Minister to do something about the membership of the Cabinet ? |
2 | However , since Stamp Duty has already been removed from share dealing , why has he set a moratorium on house purchase ? |
3 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
4 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
5 | ( In his Mass ‘ Tota pulchra es ’ , for instance , he sets the Benedictus as a canon for tenor and bass . ) |
6 | He sets the scene , intervenes , sums up . |
7 | Here he sets the scene , and interviews Jan Urban , the leader of Civic Forum , and Valtre Komarek , a key economic minister |
8 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
9 | He sets the clergy against each other in rivalry for his favours . |
10 | But he set a date , put an Assistant Manager in charge and after a small conflab set the number at 50 . |
11 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
12 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
13 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
14 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
15 | BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them . |
16 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
17 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
18 | He set a hand to his belt , and drew the hilt of his dagger forward with a gesture there was no mistaking . |
19 | He set no date for its resumption , however . |
20 | He set no date , but the Constitution required elections within 90 days of the dissolution of parliament , and specified that the date should be set at least six weeks in advance of polling . |
21 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
22 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
23 | He set the basket down on the low table by the oven , then turned back , looking at the boy . |
24 | When Charles received the ( initially ) doubtful title of emperor from Pope Leo III on Christmas Day , 800 , he set the scene for later claims that the Pope had the power to install , or to depose , the Emperor . |
25 | He wanted me to do you and he set the scene . |
26 | He set the hotel alarm clock touched . |
27 | He set the dish before the bars as a visible inducement . |
28 | Yet he set the dish aside and noticed the shadow pass her face . |
29 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
30 | Looping a line over the crosstrees , he set the storm jib , sheeting it out to port in hope of putting the greater strain on the starboard stays . |