Example sentences of "set about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Shelford , the tour captain , will no longer be asking £500 for personal appearances and is understood already to have set about ‘ dismantling ’ those that had been arranged . |
| 3 | He bought one as soon as his bank balance could survive the impact of bringing all that fancy engineering from Japan to Iceland and immediately set about modifying it to suit his own very special requirements . |
| 4 | He was elected president of French PEN in 1979 and immediately set about organising the world congress in Lyon . |
| 5 | Edward Knoyle inherited the manor in 1533 , and probably set about building this mullioned and gabled beauty about ten years later around a humble medieval hall . |
| 6 | We have already seen how the creators of wants , the psychology-manipulators in advertising , had set about trying to undermine it . |
| 7 | The lack of confidence engendered by such a barren run was all to evident , as Tottenham soon set about imposing themselves on this unremarkable match . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While Robyn had been preoccupied with the issues of contemporary literary theory and its repercussions on the Cambridge English Faculty , the Conservative Government of Mrs Thatcher , elected in 1979 with a mandate to cut public spending , had set about decimating the national system of higher education . |
| 10 | In SAVE 's view this decision was self-contradictory and made a nonsense of the law , so SAVE immediately set about investigating the possibility of legal action . |
| 11 | In the space of a generation , we have set about wiping the blackboard clean . |
| 12 | Richard I was crowned in England at Westminster on 3rd September 1189 and immediately set about raising money for the crusade . |
| 13 | Many local groups have also set about organising their own services . |
| 14 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 15 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister , for example , writing in Action for Cities in 1988 argued that ‘ the Government has created a climate which supports enterprise and has set about removing obstacles in the way of inner city recovery ( HMSO , 1988a , p. 2 ) . |
| 17 | A great church , lofty and beautiful , was built on the shelf of rock ; a monastery of size and standing was set about it . |
| 18 | The Junkers also set about diverting social pressures that emerged from the spread of industrial and urban society and the creation of national identity away from socialist revolutionary solutions into naval and military expansion , anti-socialism , and the manufacture of a threat from the east that justified the maintenance of traditional German life — a life that was , of course , best represented in the continued existence of the Junkers . |
| 19 | The Nazis also set about preparing their version of history for public consumption . |
| 20 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 21 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 22 | THE future of the pond at the Newman Collard Recreation Ground in Liss looks brighter thanks to a working party who have set about restoring and repairing it . |
| 23 | And the players promptly set about taking over the asylum . |
| 24 | He bought the old Cherton Manor about a year ago and has set about turning himself into the local squire . ’ |
| 25 | Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness . |
| 26 | South Africa have set about things the right way however . |
| 27 | Baglin emerged for the second set looking more determined , and quickly set about re-establishing himself in the match . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 30 | All such links between the English church and the Protestant churches in Europe had quickly disappeared , of course , once Mary had come to the throne in 1553 and had set about reuniting England to Rome . |