Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A healthy contribution to company profits is coming from Bonded Developments Ltd. , a subsidiary set up to sell the Bonded Machine Worldwide . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The special EP2 Task Force set up to oversee the huge job combined people from both Sellafield and Risley sites . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A UK company was incorporated , which then became the holding company of a company set up to run the Dutch business . |
| 17 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Their model set out to predict the mean dividend yield . |
| 22 | The capital logic school of neo-Marxist theories ( sometimes also called the ‘ state derivation ’ approach ) set out to deduce the functional necessity of the state from analysis of the capitalist mode of production ( Altvater , 1973 ; Holloway and Picciotto , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | Clutching his head , Umberto set out to rouse the other grooms . |
| 24 | Baghdad , as in the bunker incident at Ameriyah , came in for rough treatment when Allied airpower set out to paralyse the Iraqi nerve centre in January 1991 . |
| 25 | He despatched the Hurricanes in three flights , each led by a Fulmar , while from Malta three Marylands and a Sunderland set out to meet the incoming formation and lead them in . |
| 26 | Just as bad was the passage of the retinue of Rigunth , as she set out to marry the Visigothic prince Reccared in 584 . |
| 27 | She was Tim 's first choice when he set out to find the perfect engagement ring for the woman he loved . |
| 28 | Fourthly , Mohamed Ali set out to modernise the Egyptian economy . |
| 29 | The US State Department , encouraged by the overthrow of the discredited Egyptian monarchy in 1952 , set out to woo the young army officers who had seized power . |
| 30 | Venables , 37 , with Brian Davison , aged 30 , and veteran British mountaineer Dick Renshaw , set out to attempt the 6,368 peak . |