Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Following the victory Congress ( I ) leaders set about choosing a Prime Minister . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When we set about designing the new Apex , there was one particular feature around which the cooker was to be built … you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That 's fine with me , and I set about securing a partial guarantee from the Philippines ' largest bank . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I then set about finding a genuine buyer , which was why I needed to know what sort of planning permission would be accepted by the council . |
| 11 | The introduction and the section on " small group work " in Chapter 3 shows how we set about planning the early stages of a drama lesson . |