Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Last season , an overwhelming number of players declared themselves unavailable for the competition , a sure indicator that they set little score on the provincial matches and they think the national selectors do likewise .
2 It was envisaged that teachers ' centres would be set up based on the three colleges and that these would combine in-service course work with active experimentation on new approaches .
3 As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them .
4 [ Most of the recommendations were implemented : the Development Council was set up to advise on a ten-year development programme ; a large amount of building work was authorised and a special college opened in Leicester to train youth leaders , whose numbers doubled by 1966 . ]
5 IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii .
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