Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering . |
| 2 | The big cities , New York , London , and Liverpool even , can afford to have units set up to encourage the production of films and videos and so on in their areas , in fact there was a report in last Thurs thirtieth of December 's Shropshire Star about Liverpool 's office . |
| 3 | The message is even more explicit in The Four Just Men ( 1939 ) , a tale of derring-do in which some chaps set out to warn the nation of a demonic plan to destroy the British Empire , leaving world domination in one man 's hands . |
| 4 | In conventional trials set up to assess the efficacy of a new drug , the drug is given to a group of patients suffering from a particular illness , and the effects are compared with those obtained in a matched group of patients given a dummy ( or placebo ) drug . |
| 5 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 6 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 7 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 8 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 9 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 10 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 11 | Over the next 13 years , the regulations set out to achieve a 70 per cent cut in hydrocarbon emissions . |
| 12 | All " treaties and agreements " entered into during the Vietnamese occupation must be cancelled , he said , new borders delineated between Cambodia and Vietnam , and special SNC committees set up to control the Phnom Penh adminstration and the police . |
| 13 | The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House . |
| 14 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 15 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 16 | Here consultancies set out to help a client who is in an emergency situation . |
| 17 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 18 | A relative newcomer among theories sets out to generalize the description of discontinuities of this type to which its originator , Professor Rene Thom of the Sorbonne , has given the name ‘ catastrophe theory ’ ( Zeeman , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 20 | Functional courses set out to list the purposes for which students might wish to use language , and then to teach them how to do so . |
| 21 | In comparison to Europe in general , the Democrats and the Republicans may best be characterized as two among a large number of groups setting out to influence the course of the American political process ( we shall examine such groups in chapter 13 ) . |
| 22 | Between them the scientists and philosophers set out to explain a universe , which , after the muddle of the Dark or Middle Ages , seemed to be flooded with clear light . |
| 23 | In America and Britain , even to some extent in Germany , think-tanks set out to influence the government . |
| 24 | Its 1992 reports sets out to give a view of the prospects for travel and tourism on a global basis . |
| 25 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |
| 26 | Thousands of years ago , when the first sailors set out to explore the world , there were no such things as maps and compasses . |
| 27 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |