Example sentences of "he set [art] [noun sg] " 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 | But he set a date , put an Assistant Manager in charge and after a small conflab set the number at 50 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
| 13 | BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 16 | He set a hand to his belt , and drew the hilt of his dagger forward with a gesture there was no mistaking . |
| 17 | He set no date for its resumption , however . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 20 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 21 | He set the basket down on the low table by the oven , then turned back , looking at the boy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He wanted me to do you and he set the scene . |
| 24 | He set the hotel alarm clock touched . |
| 25 | He set the dish before the bars as a visible inducement . |
| 26 | Yet he set the dish aside and noticed the shadow pass her face . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He looked at Carrie as he set the candle down to give himself two free hands for the goose . |
| 30 | Sweating profusely , he set the fuse to just less than two seconds . |