Example sentences of "[adv] to set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 2 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 3 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 4 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 5 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 6 | You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life . |
| 7 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |
| 8 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |