Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 7 | Clutching his head , Umberto set out to rouse the other grooms . |