Example sentences of "[adv] set about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Sonia Gandhi 's obvious reluctance to succeed her husband , the Congress ( I ) machinery swiftly set about attempting to persuade her to do so . |
| 2 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 3 | Yet the post-Seebohm decades have not resolved the question of how best to set about it or what , quintessentially , should be the role of social workers within it ( Webb and Wistow , 1987 ; Pinker , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | The article is set out to try and answer some of your questions and help you map out how best to set about producing and marketing without becoming involved in a contract should one be made available . |
| 5 | This would be in tune with the general desire of the council officials that we as researchers should not set about asking direct questions about incomer and Shetlander relations . |
| 6 | No , one will not set about tracing Peter Datchett . |
| 7 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 8 | The lack of confidence engendered by such a barren run was all to evident , as Tottenham soon set about imposing themselves on this unremarkable match . |
| 9 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 10 | Once king , Henry soon set about making heavy demands of the French . |
| 11 | These northern immigrants soon set about reinventing the climate here , which is on the damp side , and investing it with therapeutic properties it hardly possesses . |
| 12 | Taking a packet of Strands from his pocket Michael gave one to Geoffrey and after offering the pack to James , who refused , laboriously set about lighting the cigarettes . |
| 13 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 14 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 15 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 16 | Baglin emerged for the second set looking more determined , and quickly set about re-establishing himself in the match . |
| 17 | As happened a decade before , the king quickly set about securing the return of his exiles . |
| 18 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 19 | And the players promptly set about taking over the asylum . |
| 20 | Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness . |
| 21 | When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower he described the North American landscape as a ‘ hideous and desolate wilderness , ’ and promptly set about bringing it to heel just his ancestors had done so successfully throughout Europe . |
| 22 | He quickly set about building a church and acquired a site on Pakington Street further up Manchester Road and work began in July 1885 . |
| 23 | Kneeling down , he quickly set about laying a fire . |
| 24 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 25 | They at once set about lighting candles and lanterns and almost immediately found the body of their beautiful young mistress at the bottom of the main staircase . |
| 26 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |
| 27 | He rapidly set about building new and well-equipped workshops at Brighton and introduced new and more powerful locomotives for main-line and suburban passenger and freight services . |
| 28 | Similarly , the harmful beings see meat when they look upon the human body , the human ‘ soul ’ ( ruwai ) , or human smell , and they will also set about trying to catch these . |
| 29 | Certainly he can turn to the school library resource centre for relevant books and audio-visual resources , but how is he to judge their quality and relevance , how can he know what other materials to order , and how can he confidently set about resource production ? |
| 30 | Many local groups have also set about organising their own services . |