Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 [ 2 ] During 1991 and 1992 , these initial recommendations were greatly revised and reorganised , largely as a result of work carried out in a number of small specialist work groups , set up following a detailed technical review meeting held in November 1991. [ 3 ] A second draft ( P2 ) began publication as a series of electronic fascicles in April 1992 , and is due for completion in July 1993 , following a further technical review in May , and presentation to the TEI 's Advisory Board in June .
2 She was glad to escape ; it had been a working lunch , set up to discuss a new second-year course on the influence of gender on literary style , and the syllabus had provoked considerable opposition from two of her older male colleagues .
3 The Institute , now renamed the International Federation of Documentation , set out to design a standard international classification scheme primarily for documentation rather than for general library use .
4 This committee set about establishing a small residential home for old people , the second of its kind in the country , and , by July 1942 , thanks largely to her drive , West Town House in Bristol was opened .
5 Building on the goodwill thus created Mr. Goddard , now retired to Buckinghamshire , set about contacting every Old Stopfordian living within a reasonable distance of London , and on 6th November the inaugural meeting and Dinner of the London Branch of the Association took place , with the Headmaster and Mr. Hitchcock , the President , travelling from Stockport to attend .
6 Around 1500 James set about building a suitable royal palace beside David I 's Holyrood abbey and under the mighty presence of Arthur 's Seat .
7 He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world .
8 It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed .
9 I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 .
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