Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 2 | Shelley made up her mind , and set off to walk the quarter of a mile . |
| 3 | The ‘ substantial case ’ for compensation was underlined yesterday by the local authority co-ordinating committee set up to represent the interest of councils which lost money . |
| 4 | Most countries have systems of government that are relatively modern creations , either designed after cataclysmic political events which required the setting up of entirely new institutions , or set up to meet the needs of newly created or newly independent states . |
| 5 | The Farm Animal Welfare Council , an independent body set up to advise the Ministry of Agriculture , suggested that 600 square centimetres should be adopted as a minimum allowance in Europe . |
| 6 | A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the extent of the responsibility of the security service ( StB ) for , and the political background to , the violent police action against student demonstrators on Nov. 17 , 1989 [ see p. 37026 ] published its report on May 9 . |
| 7 | In one area of the central fruit-growing region , north-east of Santiago , 600 seasonal workers have joined a new union set up to address the needs of the seasonal labourers and their families and to negotiate with employers . |
| 8 | This report is concerned with an NFER project set up to study the feasibility of devising tests in mathematics at several levels of difficulty , for lower attaining pupils aged 14 to 16 years . |
| 9 | US$140,000,000 already pledged by the International Development Association towards a social fund set up to cushion the impact of economic reforms [ see p. 38209 ] was to be topped up to US$500,000,000 . |
| 10 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 11 | The series of British Crime Surveys ( Hough and Mayhew 1983 , 1985 ) set out to describe the extent of crime in Britain . |
| 12 | Sue Telfer , adviser to the neighbourhood schemes , told those present at the Kingsley Centre on Thursday evening that community care set out to meet the needs of an area which were not already being covered by other organisations . |
| 13 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |
| 14 | We faced legal bills of £120,000 and set out to raise the majority of this money by public appeal , to save the magazine from the threat of extinction . |
| 15 | About 6 years ago we therefore set out to raise the image of Washroom with the hope of protecting our customer base in difficult times and to generally increase sales . |
| 16 | Welford 's Cambridge group set out to identify the nature of the work for which the older worker was best suited and the most suitable methods of retraining those whose skills had become redundant as the result of modifications in the industrial process ( Welford 1951 ) . |
| 17 | The act set out to reduce the powers of the unions . |
| 18 | When Eligius became bishop of Noyon in 641 he set out to find the bones of the martyr Quentin . |
| 19 | Odd , though , that they had once seemed so odd , so isolated , for the school at which Dotty Doddridge vainly endeavoured to teach French had been non-conformist , faintly progressive , certainly egalitarian in its religious and social complexion : it had offered a liberal , secularized , healthy coeducation , and had on its foundation in the 1860s set out to attract the children of vegetarians , Quakers , freethinkers , pacifists , Unitarians , reformers . |
| 20 | JOHN HIND and STEPHEN MOSCO set out to try the patience of Britain 's most caring MPs |
| 21 | This perception was heightened by the zeal with which some of the five CMHTs set out to protect the purity of their developmental work and their freedom from routine casework — and by the decision of all the CMHTs to begin their work by undertaking an exhaustive survey of all identifiable people with learning difficulties ( and carers ) to establish their needs and preferences . |
| 22 | He had discovered a method of intercepting springs , and , using stone to seal his drains , he and others like him set about spreading the gospel of effective underdrainage . |
| 23 | He left her and set about smoothing the sheets of her bed with touchingly serious clumsiness . |
| 24 | While military , Falangist and Carlist units , fanning out from rebel-held Seville , Cádiz , Córdoba and Granada , set about conquering the rest of Andalusia , Franco 's Army of Africa and its accompanying Moorish troops pushed rapidly northwards from their southern beach-head into Extremadura and towards Madrid . |
| 25 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 26 | But as Chapman set about maintaining the momentum of his Northampton team after their 1909 Championship , and went in search of new players , transfer fees were not a problem . |
| 27 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 28 | There are two ways in which company law set about tackling the problem of legitimacy of corporate managerial power which was thus posed . |
| 29 | Most importantly , he set about resolving the problem of transporting his troops to the mainland . |
| 30 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |