Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 2 | Many West Berlin pensioners , who had set off to visit relatives and friends in the East , looked scared . |
| 3 | The house from which Haverford Downs intended to telephone his ‘ Jottings ’ belonged to the Harrisons , an elderly couple who had set off to visit their daughter in Toronto . |
| 4 | In June 1925 , we had a school holiday on a Wednesday , so with a schoolmate set off to ride to Ringwood . |
| 5 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 6 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 7 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 8 | Instead , a central fund for state property will be set up to sell large and medium-sized companies . |
| 9 | In July 1988 , a new organisation , the National Association of Software and Services Company ( Nasscom ) was set up to serve the interests of software sector . |
| 10 | The Social Market Foundation was set up to serve David Owen 's Social Democrats , a party that no longer exists . |
| 11 | Both the USA and UK clearinghouses were set up to serve primarily the academic library sector , while USER from the outset made its target all library sectors . |
| 12 | The Evesham Laboratory was set up to serve growers in the Vale of Evesham and it 's been taken away and Wolverhampton is quite out of the question . |
| 13 | The Network was set up to enable journalists in the UK to campaign on behalf of journalists overseas who suffer human rights abuses . |
| 14 | An associated foundation has been set up to enable architects , art historians and archaeologists to investigate funerary rituals , art and culture . |
| 15 | TECHNIQUEST has been set up to enable visitors to touch and play with hands-on exhibits and experience scientific effects and phenomena . |
| 16 | The programme was set up to enable publishers from eastern and central Europe to visit British houses for short working attachments . |
| 17 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 18 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowshop Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 19 | A joint committee of the Commons and the Lords has been set up to scrutinize statutory instruments , and therefore to facilitate parliamentary review of subordinate legislation . |
| 20 | Special commissions are set up to scrutinize budgets and economic plans ( White et al. |
| 21 | An own goal yes , but even so , the review group was set up to smooth away a little local difficulty . |
| 22 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 23 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 24 | You 'll have a later report er , from the social care enterprise agency , which we 've set up to stimulate independent domiciliary care . |
| 25 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 26 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 27 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 28 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 29 | In 1856 a special coal station was established ( La Chapelle-Charbons ) and in 1864 , as a result of Baron Haussmann 's building boom , a station was set up to receive building materials , particularly finished stone . |
| 30 | Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs . |