Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] [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 During this period , they also set about rubbishing the British proposals for competing currencies , and for the hard ecu .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region .
9 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 .
10 He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan .
15 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 .
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