Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 3 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 4 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 5 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 6 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 7 | How a long-net is used to surround a warren , with one or more nets set internally to subdivide the enclosed area to restrict rabbit movements . |
| 8 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 9 | MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region . |
| 10 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |
| 11 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 12 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 13 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 14 | Apart from establishing common criteria for the licensing of airlines and routes , they set out to guarantee an EC-wide right of cabotage ( the carriage of one country 's freight or passenger traffic by an airline from another country ) , to phase out capacity quotas at airports , and to end the preferential access arrangements accorded by some countries to their own domestic airlines . |
| 15 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 16 | The news of the school uplift reached the two shopping in Kirkwall before they set out to travel the twenty miles or so back home . |
| 17 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 18 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 19 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 20 | It intervened to regulate trade ; in 1651 the republican Parliament passed a Navigation Act which set out to protect the English shipping trade by laying down that imports could be taken to the ports of England or of English colonies only by English ships or by those of the country that produced the goods . |
| 21 | set there to keep the evil spirits out . |
| 22 | Begun under the Labour government of Mr David Lange and his Finance Minister , Mr ( now Sir ) Roger Douglas , the reforms set about dismantling the generous subsidies to farming , New Zealand 's largest industry . |
| 23 | That defeat closed the west to the Magyars who then set about colonising the Pannonian plain and founding the state we now know as Hungary . |
| 24 | How schools set about developing the statutory orders in the context of whole — curriculum policies represents a significant challenge for leadership and , not the least in primary schools , the strategies adopted by headteachers . |
| 25 | Following the victory Congress ( I ) leaders set about choosing a Prime Minister . |
| 26 | After TB was diagnosed , he stopped work immediately and hospital staff set about contacting the 500 children and 500 staff who he had been in contact with him in the weeks before he became ill . |
| 27 | When we set about designing the new Apex , there was one particular feature around which the cooker was to be built … you . |
| 28 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 29 | That 's fine with me , and I set about securing a partial guarantee from the Philippines ' largest bank . |
| 30 | Although there were no Viet Cong in the village and not a shot was fired at them , they set about slaughtering the Vietnamese civilians with a primitive and sexual savagery that is hard to believe . |