Example sentences of "set about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 2 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 3 | The Phalangists stormed into Tony Franjieh 's home , murdered 32 of his supporters and bodyguards and then set about the ritual execution of Suleiman Franjieh 's beloved son . |
| 4 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |
| 5 | If things did n't improve , then he would set about the central-heating system . |
| 6 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 7 | As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 . |
| 8 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 9 | He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . |
| 10 | The team that ended the 1960s was dumped , and Ripley-Rust and Pybus set about the daunting task of building a squad capable of winning promotion when the club 's League career got underway again . |
| 11 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 12 | Kalchu , Nara and Kāli fetched the wooden shovels and , standing thigh-high in the snow , set about the long work of clearing the roof . |
| 13 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |