Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On first returning to power in 1979 the Conservatives set out to make piecemeal adjustments to the social security system . |
| 2 | Some parents set about punishing undesirable behaviour without paying attention to the needs and ‘ messages ’ that lie behind it . |
| 3 | Oracles set up to confer green rites on business-priests are booming . |
| 4 | The council , after hearing reports of commissions set up to canvass popular opinion , also firmly rejected a return to a multiparty system . |
| 5 | MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face . |
| 6 | Thus some northern textile firms set out to hire black workers because white workers will not work shifts for the kind of wages paid . |
| 7 | A number of major reports were produced in this way ( see Chapter 3 ) , but no CACE has been constituted since 1967 , and later government reports have been issued by committees set up to consider particular issues . |
| 8 | The first is built on formal procedures and standardisation to ensure a proper response to every set of circumstances while the second , a more recent form in large organisations involves temporary structures set up to solve specific detachment of individuals from the aims of the organisation as a whole and their consequent apathy . |
| 9 | Observing that the public interest had fixed almost entirely on the co-operatives set up to rescue failed enterprises organised as companies in the conventional form , the Agency commented first that it was questionable how far those enterprises when reorganised , satisfied co-operative principles ; and next that the recent closure of KME might have revived doubts about the effectiveness for industrial ventures of the co-operative form . |
| 10 | So the girls set about phoning potential and existing clients and wrapping up the business . |
| 11 | Bans had to be imposed on mackerel and herring fishing to allow stocks to recover , and quota systems set up to prevent serious depletion of other fish . |