Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 2 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 3 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 4 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 5 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 6 | In July 1988 , a new organisation , the National Association of Software and Services Company ( Nasscom ) was set up to serve the interests of software sector . |
| 7 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 8 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 9 | Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs . |
| 10 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |
| 11 | Those contrary approaches , contrary calculations and contrary totals , the one nearly twice the other , had only to be set up to illustrate the difficulty of the problems in this case . |
| 12 | The existence of some could not be disclosed on security grounds ; others are set up to do a particular job and then wound up . |
| 13 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 14 | On April 3 it was announced that a fund would be set up to complement the introduction with effect from March 22 of a new penal code based on sharia ( Islamic ) law [ see p. 37995 ] . |
| 15 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
| 16 | Bright sparks Wyseplant 's new service , Powersafe , has been set up to manage the inspection and testing of electrical installations and equipment used in industry , commerce and public utilities in the UK |
| 17 | Under the ‘ hard ECU ’ proposal put forward by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , a new institution would be set up to manage the hard ECU , the European Monetary Fund ( EMF ) . |
| 18 | A FUND has been set up to save the giant northern hairy-nosed wombat . |
| 19 | The " pillar " — not very large — consecrated by the oil is set up to commemorate the vision . |
| 20 | An audible ripple of laughter went round the court room as Brown denied vehemently that he had been ‘ set up to take the rap for the footballer ’ . |
| 21 | Once the outlines for the pages have been set up using a system of ‘ style sheets ’ text and graphics are merged in a single operation . |
| 22 | This sort of work frequently benefits from being set up to create a triangle , so that each group has some relationship with the other two , each group needs and services the other two . |
| 23 | Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide . |
| 24 | Finally , prior to accessing the relational database you must set your DEC Rdb/VMS or ORACLE default database , as appropriate , to whichever database your LIFESPAN Manager has set up to retain the transferred LIFESPAN information . |
| 25 | In you review of the 486SX machines you state that ‘ once again it was set up to use the MS DOS device drivers ( HIMEM , MOUSE and SMARTDrive ) , although the ones that come with Windows 3.1 are much better ’ . |
| 26 | After further discussion a small group consisting initially of Eileen , Maureen , Crawford and Leah , was set up to plan the next such gathering . |
| 27 | This emergency centre in Oxford was set up to coordinate the response to just such an incident . |
| 28 | In some societies the practical importance of dreams as portents of the future and as phenomena with mysterious healing properties was not only recognized but institutions were set up to exploit the fact . |
| 29 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 30 | Both guitars have necks that are properly set to line up with the top of the bridges , and which are set up to give the correct amount of neck relief . |