Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the entire work , the accompaniment only picks up absolutely precisely on three occasions , and by the end I was all set metaphorically to murder the conductor ! |
| 2 | This year September and 12 , have been set aside to give the public a chance to visit important buildings that are usually private , and take part in guided tours , exhibitions and demonstrations throughout the province . |
| 3 | And in preparing for his own comfortable future , Robert Maxwell plundered £1 billion , which had been set aside to secure the future of hundreds of his workers . |
| 4 | An allocation is usually set aside to cover the purchase of readers ' requests ( for older material ) . |
| 5 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 6 | The EC itself has not attached environmental conditions in the cases of Poland and Hungary , but Carlo Ripa di Meana , the EC Environment Commissioner , has insisted that a sum ( still to be agreed ) must be set aside to bring the East 's environment up to scratch and there are proposals for training environmental managers . |