Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He subsequently set off to explore the county on foot as far as Lands End and his notes show that his book , had it been written , would have contained some far-fetched fantasies — as well as straight inaccuracies . |
| 2 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rachel was crying now and Annie spoke a few comforting words to her as she set off pushing the pram along the shabby street . |
| 5 | Shelley made up her mind , and set off to walk the quarter of a mile . |
| 6 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 7 | He ordered Sergeant Yates to take the bulk of the party to the rendezvous , while he himself set off to reconnoitre the escarpment with Sergeant Tait . |
| 8 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Animal Procedures Committee , set up to advise the government on animal experiments , recommended that there was sufficient evidence of sentience to give one species of invertebrate , the common octopus , protection . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | President Eisenhower set out to heal the divisions in the nation . |
| 18 | Hume 's Treatise set out to lay the foundations for ‘ a complete system of the sciences ’ relying ultimately only on ‘ experience and observation ’ — an ambition which empiricists all share . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The series of British Crime Surveys ( Hough and Mayhew 1983 , 1985 ) set out to describe the extent of crime in Britain . |
| 21 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | The act set out to reduce the powers of the unions . |
| 28 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 29 | When Eligius became bishop of Noyon in 641 he set out to find the bones of the martyr Quentin . |
| 30 | 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 . |