Example sentences of "had set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors heard the authority had to set a budget of £11,614,000 for the new financial year and the calculations were based on a community charge to be levied on 74,014 residents . |
| 2 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 3 | Central to Agricultural Relief , as with the other elements of the popular movement , remained the belief that the community had to set the agenda of priorities and participate in seeking solutions . |
| 4 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 5 | Government had to set the example . |
| 6 | Mackenzie 's men had to set the traps themselves . |
| 7 | He had to set the argument for delay against others which weighed in favour of publication . |
| 8 | Sir Richard said sportsmen had a tremendous impact on youngsters when it came to tobacco advertising and they had to set an example . |
| 9 | Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal . |
| 10 | A report in El País of Sept. 13 claimed that the ministries concerned had set a ceiling of 100,000 on the numbers of illegal immigrants whom they were prepared to legalize within the current amnesty programme ( which was to close on Dec. 10 ) . |
| 11 | He had set a forester on the road between Stamford and Casterton bridges , who exacted four pence for cheminage from every cart carrying wood or timber from Lincolnshire to Stamford , contrary to custom and the Charter of the Forest . |
| 12 | In Parliament on May 2 de Klerk ( who had announced the proposed all-party conference on April 18 — see p. 38131 ) said that he intended to go ahead with it with or without the ANC , which had set a deadline of May 9 for its demands to be met . |
| 13 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 14 | They had set a target of £5,000 , the same amount that was raised in Manchester and Salford in 1981 , and were delighted when a record of £6,141 was collected . |
| 15 | The 1987 joint programme of the ruling Social Democrats ( SPÖ ) and Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) [ see p. 35088 ] had set a target of keeping the 1991 deficit below 3 per cent . |
| 16 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 17 | We had set a target of 50 tonnes per month maximum of caustic lost to drain and quickly met and indeed exceeded that . |
| 18 | In some instances unions had set a limit on the size of the temporary labour force expressed as a proportion of the total or the regular labour force , and if this limit was exceeded an equivalent number of temporary workers would have to be upgraded to permanent status . |
| 19 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 20 | But the 1298 claim had set a precedent which was to be used again — especially by Edward III . |
| 21 | So we invoked that agreement , and Charlie said Winter Garden had set a precedent and we said No it had n't , it had just been a Cold War expedient and those days were over . |
| 22 | … I had done this process before , once , but not under pressure , when Aunt Viv had set a combination on a new suitcase and then forgotten it … one-four-eight , one-four-nine … my face sweating , my fingers slipping on the tiny wheels from haste … one-five-zero , one-five-one … |
| 23 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 24 | Suddenly , her fears that Bella , like Mr Bishop , had set a trap for her with the money , seemed ludicrous . |
| 25 | The gruesome response from the Serb-dominated army was predictable — several hundred Croat fighters gathered in a village near Kupres , unaware that federal army tanks , hidden in corn stacks , had set a trap — the result was an appalling massacre . |
| 26 | Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it . |
| 27 | So Gharr no only had Mala but also knew our pod and had set a trap for me . |
| 28 | He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain . |
| 29 | The Stewarts suffered a sequence of disasters which would almost suggest that some evil magician had set a curse upon the entire house . |
| 30 | Frau Schmidt had set a table in front of the open fire . |