Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The sales office where Riba worked was full of her colleagues and friends at her farewell presentation , with a table set aside to hold the many cards and presents which she received .
2 It might be a private session with the in-bureau tutor , a visiting lecturer , or a staff meeting set aside to discuss a particular topic .
3 But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria .
4 He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back .
5 Yet when news reached Jedburgh that Bothwell was lying seriously wounded in his Liddesdale stronghold of Hermitage , Mary set off to ride the 50 miles there and back in a day .
6 Charlotte 's companion said with quickening interest , and set off to have a closer look .
7 A PRESSURE group set up to oppose a new waste disposal plant planned for Wirral yesterday won vital support in its campaign .
8 The demonstration was organised by the South Tyrone Action Committee , set up to oppose the Southern Health Board 's review plans , which could threaten the unit .
9 Their demands followed the arrest of Aristide Sokambi , chair of a co-ordinating committee set up to convene a national conference .
10 Helen Guy of Castlemilk Housing Energy Action , set up to combat the high level of fuel debt in the area , described the anger and despair with which people had reacted to the decision to add VAT to their fuel bills .
11 A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide .
12 Other important measures included ( i ) tax relief for a range of environmental measures ( such as those to combat land degradation ) ; ( ii ) increased tax relief for small businesses and oil exploration ; ( iii ) allocation of additional funds for industrial restructuring ; and ( iv ) increased funds for the Australian Securities Commission , a new body set up to regulate the corporate sector .
13 A project set up to generate a new product or process may be an in-house activity utilizing the company 's own staff and resources , or it may be contracted out to another organization .
14 The special EP2 Task Force set up to oversee the huge job combined people from both Sellafield and Risley sites .
15 In the first place , a working party set up to simplify the complex technicalities of the original assessment proposals generated a system which was more intelligible and rational .
16 The company is at best ambivalent about the Network Printing Alliance however — yet another industry body set up to define a standard protocol , this time for distributed local network connected printers and personal computers .
17 During a debate in the Nationalrat on the report of the parliamentary commission set up to investigate the secret files affair , Arnold Koller , Justice and Police Minister , said on March 6 , 1990 , that a new law would be introduced to place the security service under the control of parliament .
18 Meanwhile the company set up to market the Landini marque in the UK has gone and the Italian range has come under the Watveare wing .
19 The Central Office for Organizing and Discussing the Draft Project for Revising the Constitution , set up to co-ordinate the national debate , held its first meeting in Maputo on March 9 , 1990 .
20 Management consultant , writer and outstanding mountaineer Alan Blackshaw has been appointed chair of an SNH ‘ task force ’ set up to discuss the sensitive issue of public access in Scotland .
21 In his analysis of the popular culture which appeared among the promoters of the Pro-Life Campaign , set up to achieve a constitutional ban on abortion in the Republic in 1983 , O'Carroll pin-points certain characteristics , which can be abbreviated here : a monolithic and absolute view of the world , with its accompanying intolerance , derived in part from the direct consultation of clerics and politicians on public moral issues and the subsequent failure to develop an ethos of public debate ; a localized belief system , rooted in family and communal authority and issuing in a spirit of absolute conformity ; sexual prudery , a product partly of the inheritance problem ; and the development of acute anxiety when such beliefs — inhering partly as they do in their practice and shaping of society — are threatened .
22 Sydney Possuelo , a strong advocate of Indian rights who has recently been appointed head of Brazil 's Indian agency FUNAI , has put new impetus behind the massive initiative , ‘ Operation Free Jungle ’ , set up to rid the Yanomami land of gold miners .
23 Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie , administrator of the Bibliothèque Nationale , has been appointed chairman of an association set up to consider the administrative problems and to determine the aims and contents of the long awaited library , and who the users will be .
24 A UK company was incorporated , which then became the holding company of a company set up to run the Dutch business .
25 Slid his unsocked feet into a pair of canvas loafers and set out to test a certain hypothesis .
26 Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies .
27 In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike .
28 The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer .
29 At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before .
30 Their model set out to predict the mean dividend yield .
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