Example sentences of "set the [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Cascarino then set the tone for a livelier second half by heading a Clarke centre past Miklosko three minutes after the restart . |
| 2 | Grand chandeliers and marble floors , gilt mirrors and woven wall-hangings greet you as you enter the airy Hotel Savoy and these set the tone for a traditional hotel of classic style . |
| 3 | But Jones is a snappy player in every sense , and set the tone for an afternoon of petulant silliness with a Gatting-like finger-wagging retort to one of Keith Griffiths 's decisions . |
| 4 | Margaret Thatcher also set the tone for the conference with a deliberately upbeat message . |
| 5 | For example , fears of escalation expressed by the police set the tone for the Star headline BABY-FACED SEX BEAST ‘ SET TO KILL' — ‘ Detectives believe the same man carried out two earlier attacks and is becoming increasingly violent . |
| 6 | Opening remarks are important since they set the tone for the rest of the sales interview . |
| 7 | Indeed , to anticipate a little , in sixty-seven of the eighty-two cases which I observed and recorded the client announced his need and set the objective for the solicitor . |
| 8 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 9 | The Congress subsequently agreed to grant Yeltsin emergency powers to deal with the crisis situation in the republic and set the date for the direct election of a President of Russia [ see pp. 38130-31 ] . |
| 10 | D J Mike Read and guest Cliff Richard will be on hand to capture the excitement of the first day and hopefully set the mood for a week of high quality tennis — and not a little fun ! |
| 11 | The allegedly second class Scots gave an undeniably first rate account of themselves in a first half in which the Germans set the mood for the evening with the quality of their possession play . |
| 12 | Julia waited to give Raffaella the bad news until she had delivered her lesson , led a halting conversation in English about the future of Italy , handed out the previous week 's exercises that she had marked , and set the work for the next lesson . |
| 13 | But they have done what no American administration has dared do in living memory — set the scene for a proper debate . |
| 14 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 15 | That eventuality would have been a worry for the UN had the Bosnian Serbs said Yes and thereby set the scene for the biggest UN peacekeeping operation ever . |
| 16 | Though the Khmers Rouges signed the agreement in Paris in 1991 that set the scene for the election campaign , they have not honoured their promise to stop fighting . |
| 17 | Day one — a trip to the top of the Grands Montets ( 3,300m ) — set the scene for the rest of the week . |
| 18 | Social context and social change : an analysis of the significant changes in social phenomena ( youth culture , media , education ) which together set the scene for the understanding of contemporary events . |
| 19 | Social context and social change : an analysis of the significant changes in social phenomena ( youth culture , media , education ) which together set the scene for the understanding of contemporary events . |
| 20 | Lukacs 's adumbration of the problems facing the socialist realist writer , his examination of three tendencies within realism — bourgeois critical realism , socialist realism as a theoretical potentiality , and socialist realism as a Stalinist corruption ( socialist naturalism ) — set the agenda for an analysis of Nizan 's work . |
| 21 | At an earlier meeting , in Turnberry ( Scotland ) on June 7-8 , the North Atlantic Council ( of NATO Foreign Ministers ) had announced outline proposals for improving co-operation with the Warsaw Pact and set the agenda for the forthcoming summit . |
| 22 | UNESCO-sponsored research , particularly associated with the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems , led to the publication of Many Voices , One World ( MacBride Commission , 1980 ) , which set the agenda for the 1980s and provided a spur to the creation of World Communications Year ( 1983 ) , continuing World Conferences on Strategies and Policies for Informatics , and other initiatives . |
| 23 | Bass playing out of New Order , squiggly sensory overloading out of The Shamen , ambience out of The Orb , guitars out of a host of Scallydelic outfits ; set the controls for the heart of the crash pad and pass the pipe . |
| 24 | Set the controls for the heart of Planet Orb … |
| 25 | We will be entering into a legal agreement with the er , the council to basically erm , set the criteria for the scheme this will establish the mix and the tenure er of the , of the er the scheme and to ensure that it it adheres to the , to the master plan . |
| 26 | To make matters worse , Olga was also the secretary of the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees — a pack of overdressed snobs , groaned Mrs Frizzell , whose members set the standard for every social event in the city . |
| 27 | FORMER Philippines ' first lady Imelda Marcos plans a week of high-profile activities to generate publicity and set the stage for a possible bid for the presidency after nearly six years in exile . |
| 28 | But that simply set the stage for a final , beautiful flourish from Robins . |
| 29 | The Lepers ' Pavanne of 1104 set the stage for a series of evils , each more wicked than the last . |
| 30 | A ntecedent events are those events that precede , lead up to and set the stage for the disobedient |