Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bale Out by Ian Wright sets out to present a general background of historical information on the parachute and its evolution . |
| 2 | Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon . |
| 3 | The test sets out to assess a wide range of grammatical understanding , including grammatical categories such as noun , verb and adjective ; negatives ; singular and plural personal pronouns ; reversible active verbs ; personal pronouns ; singular and plural noun inflections ; comparative adjectives ; reversible passive sentences ; ‘ in'/ ‘ on ’ ; post-modified subjects ; ‘ X but not Y ’ constructions ; ‘ above'/ ‘ below ’ ; ‘ not only but also ’ constructions ; the relative clause ; ‘ neither X nor Y ’ and embedded sentences . |
| 4 | Their demands followed the arrest of Aristide Sokambi , chair of a co-ordinating committee set up to convene a national conference . |
| 5 | Kent 's interests during the passage of the Channel Tunnel Bill were also served by the Joint Consultative Committee set up following a formal commitment by the government given in the February 1986 White Paper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 8 | Bigoted detective sergeant Robert Spallen sets out to bring a notorious IRA terrorist to book . |
| 9 | A PRESSURE group set up to oppose a new waste disposal plant planned for Wirral yesterday won vital support in its campaign . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 12 | Over the next 13 years , the regulations set out to achieve a 70 per cent cut in hydrocarbon emissions . |
| 13 | The Foundry was a joint project by gear manufacturers Wild Country , Jerry Moffatt and the shop Outside , and the whole set up cost a cool £200,000 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 16 | But first the staff at Slim bridge set about creating a faithful replica of his garden : water spaces , land areas , nesting boxes , feeding devices — all were as near as possible the same . |
| 17 | Following the victory Congress ( I ) leaders set about choosing a Prime Minister . |
| 18 | They also made such one-off comedies as The Green Man ( 1957 ) , in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sets out to prevent a sour-faced captain of industry from being blown up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |