Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing .
2 The user must log onto the LIFESPAN installation account with the default directory and UIC set to that of the process directory .
3 The Validation program must be run from the LIFESPAN installation account with the default directory and UIC set to that of the process directory .
4 If CND sets about the job properly , it may find it easier than we suppose .
5 Ping-pong doubles match perhaps ? wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg set to typing again ) .
6 Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house .
7 US and Europe set for trade war
8 The five vessels that would soon make history — the Vittoria ( now generally known as the Victoria ) , the Trinidada ( the Trinidad ) , the San Antonio , the Concepción and the Santiago — were small and , until Magellan set to work on them , hopelessly unseaworthy .
9 Armed with these two principles Einstein , Podolsky and Rosen set to work to demolish quantum mechanics .
10 Meanwhile , Jerome was pleasuring her mouth , while Clement set to work between her hands .
11 As Nick sets to work his wife Jate ( Niamh Cusack ) discovers that someone has committed a far more serious offence — but the witness wo n't talk .
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