Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 2 | They were not setting out to trade in gramophone records . |
| 3 | He at once set off to stay with his father in Spain , abandoning his school clothes to his mother . |
| 4 | Manor court rolls and deeds show that families possessed small parcels of land on a variety of copyhold , leasehold and freehold tenures and that income from even the smallest holdings was often set aside to provide for dependants . |
| 5 | The purchase of the Stockholm group already means that more than 60% of Wolters Kluwer 's activities are now outside the Netherlands , an objective that the company had originally set out to achieve in 1994 . |
| 6 | According to Dr Peter Pratt , who heads the trust 's community health directorate , the unit is particularly well set up to respond to the increasing emphasis on non-hospital care in the NHS . |
| 7 | Another group of nomes was about to set out to look for them . |
| 8 | We then set out to look for contacts that come from sources other than the usual lake fish . |
| 9 | As a citizen she was concerned that all too often social workers got an idea in their minds that ritual abuse was taking place , and then set out to look for it , The after-effects , though , were critical , according to Helen Martini . |
| 10 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |
| 11 | It seems businesses have never set out to choose in a deliberate and disciplined way which technique or techniques are likely to be the most effective , given the circumstances and the resources available . |
| 12 | There is no choice but to analyse your own needs and be honest with yourself , weighing up one ‘ want ’ against another , before you actually set out to look for a place to live . |