Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 2 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 3 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 4 | Doctors are all very well , but mountain climbing doctors are all bonkers in my experience , mutant crosses between James Robertson Justice , Rab C Nesbitt and Evel Knievel , eternally setting up drips the better and faster to imbibe Old Scrotum 's Real Brain Shrinking Liver Ale . |
| 5 | During this period , they also set about rubbishing the British proposals for competing currencies , and for the hard ecu . |
| 6 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 7 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 8 | The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments . |
| 9 | Cautiously setting out to explore the many winding canyons debouching from their landing point , a host of nightmarish apparitions greet their progress . |
| 10 | MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region . |
| 11 | This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence . |
| 12 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 13 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 14 | That defeat closed the west to the Magyars who then set about colonising the Pannonian plain and founding the state we now know as Hungary . |
| 15 | I then set about finding a genuine buyer , which was why I needed to know what sort of planning permission would be accepted by the council . |
| 16 | With this in mind , he introduced Wolfgang to the public at a concert at Salzburg university in the autumn of 1761 , and then set about arranging the first of their many international tours . |
| 17 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 18 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |