Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte 's companion said with quickening interest , and set off to have a closer look . |
| 2 | A PRESSURE group set up to oppose a new waste disposal plant planned for Wirral yesterday won vital support in its campaign . |
| 3 | Their demands followed the arrest of Aristide Sokambi , chair of a co-ordinating committee set up to convene a national conference . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Slid his unsocked feet into a pair of canvas loafers and set out to test a certain hypothesis . |
| 8 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 9 | At the end of the Second World War the US and UK set out to construct a new order for international trade and investment , a set of institutions and arrangements that became known as the Bretton Woods system . |
| 10 | SAVE 's report , The Scourge of Britain 's High Streets , set out to provide a visual record of the damage , canvas the views of those on the spot ( i.e. local planning officers and civic societies ) , and find examples of successful sensitive treatment . |
| 11 | But it was only in the 1950s that Greece set out to build a serious manufacturing sector — and immediately , unlike the Koreas and Spains of the world , found it was not capable of it . |
| 12 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |