Example sentences of "[adv] set about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 2 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 3 | Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness . |
| 4 | He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . |
| 5 | In furtherance of this goal the new regime immediately set about the modernization of the economy and the expansion of commerce , for Napoleon III , like most contemporaries , was convinced that the strength of Britain , the dominant power of the era , lay in her financial and commercial soundness . |
| 6 | They immediately set about the task of pushing the jostling photographers away from the limousine . |
| 7 | Having planted avenues and pleasure grounds around the house , he then set about the building of farms and the planting of woods . |
| 8 | The Phalangists stormed into Tony Franjieh 's home , murdered 32 of his supporters and bodyguards and then set about the ritual execution of Suleiman Franjieh 's beloved son . |
| 9 | This work behind them , Peach and Horne then set about the description of the North:West Highlands . |
| 10 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 11 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |