Example sentences of "[adv] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me tell you , ’ she yelled , ‘ Boyd and I are somebodies in this town , and mostly because I was smart enough to set to and cultivate the right people . ’ |
| 2 | I was on level four , I' [ d rescued hostages , destroyed the nuclear reactor , and was all set to finally put an end to the madman . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's all set to music . |
| 4 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 5 | The disaster is already set to be the world 's worst for ground casualties inflicted by a crashing aircraft . |
| 6 | You will notice in the dialog box that appears that the Type is already set to Date and that the Date Unit box is not greyed out . |
| 7 | But Sally and Peter are nothing if not resourceful , and with the aid of some good friends in the building and design world they soon set to work to transform this town house into a haven of beauty and calm . |
| 8 | He soon set to work making drawings of the tiny fellow , and of the cradle . |
| 9 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 10 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |
| 11 | This is automatically set to " N " for No . |
| 12 | The status of the SPR will be automatically set to Accepted . |
| 13 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 14 | Not all poems are sufficiently lyrical , and they may be overburdened with wordy information : This kind poetry is far too prolix to be successfully set to music . |
| 15 | They had a right set to while I went to look for my knitting . |
| 16 | Keith will now set to creating a painting for a FlyPast reader . |
| 17 | ‘ We have never worked out what the chemistry is , but the audiences liked it and we realised ‘ Hey , we 've got something here ’ and really set to work on it . |
| 18 | The Company is intent on maximising its potential and feels it is now set to further sales from 1991 which with revenue from other sources , point to a good year for the Company as a whole . |
| 19 | The movie was originally set to be produced on a budget of $5 million to be filmed at such diverse locations as California , Montana , Colorado , Nevada City and Calgary , Canada . |
| 20 | Its weights were originally set to small random values . |
| 21 | If these problems can be overcome by the planners who are now setting to work under the direction of the UN Secretary-General , the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal could be an important step in strengthening international law . |
| 22 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 23 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 24 | Stimulated and excited by Haydn 's example , Mozart immediately set to work on a similar set , K.168–73 , in which denser textures , use of contrapuntal devices , and a more rigorous approach , as opposed to the sensuous , Italianate tunefulness of the earlier set , all point to Haydn 's influence . |
| 25 | In July 1979 she moved into the 50,000 apartment and immediately set to work furnishing the rooms in a warm but simple Habitat style . |
| 26 | Immediately set to work unpiling the pile of broken gargoyles . |
| 27 | No one immediately set to in order to work out how a well-publicized national response in terms of content and expectation of achievement would actually turn out at each key stage . |
| 28 | His delegates in France immediately set to work to nominate these regional administrators . |
| 29 | The original supplier er withdrew all his guarantees about the performance of the detector , or indeed his commitment to the delivery schedules , shortly after we had er placed the development contract with the consortium and er the consortium recognised that it could not live with that situation and immediately set to work to find an alternative supplier . |
| 30 | No-one was hurt and engineers immediately set to work making temporary repairs to the hull . |