Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herodotus of Halicarnassus , his Researches are here set down to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of our own and of other peoples ; and more particularly , to show how they came into conflict . |
| 2 | Millions of pounds spent on satellite technology is wasted when people like me ignore Michael Fish yelling on television from behind some sandbags , ‘ For God 's sake take cover ! ’ as we set off to claim a Munro with a song in our hearts . |
| 3 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 4 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 6 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 7 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 8 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 9 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 10 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 11 | We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside . |
| 12 | £20 million was " top-sliced " from joint finance budgets and set aside to fund a number of pilot projects . |
| 13 | How a long-net is used to surround a warren , with one or more nets set internally to subdivide the enclosed area to restrict rabbit movements . |
| 14 | The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House . |
| 15 | All " treaties and agreements " entered into during the Vietnamese occupation must be cancelled , he said , new borders delineated between Cambodia and Vietnam , and special SNC committees set up to control the Phnom Penh adminstration and the police . |
| 16 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 17 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 18 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 19 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 20 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 21 | RIGS ( Regionally Important Geological Sites ) — set up to build a network of local voluntary groups to collect geological information on their areas . |
| 22 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 23 | In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering . |
| 24 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 25 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 26 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |
| 27 | I ca n't say I set out to do a ‘ cut and sew ’ jacket . |
| 28 | After arrival at the capital of Reykjavik we watched in some trepidation as our heavily laden Landrover was swung out on a derrick and deposited on the quay , but all went well and as soon as we had cleared customs we set out to take a look at this bright little capital city . |
| 29 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 30 | MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region . |