Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Such a view would be wrong because many of the points of critique that we have just set down have been backed up by solid research into the concrete world of interests and groups . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Many West Berlin pensioners , who had set off to visit relatives and friends in the East , looked scared . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Irina had already set off carrying two suitcases . |
6 | In June 1925 , we had a school holiday on a Wednesday , so with a schoolmate set off to ride to Ringwood . |
7 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
8 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
9 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Since the late 1970s management boards have been set up consisting of three diocesan nominees , including normally the parish priest , two parents , and the head teacher . |
12 | Now under the Employment Protection Act of 1975 an Appeal Tribunal has been set up consisting of judges , and of others having special knowledge or experience of industrial relations , either as representatives of employers or as representatives of workers . |
13 | To facilitate this , a Steering Committee was set up consisting of senior members of the relevant departments to oversee the development and decide or recommend courses of action on major policy areas . |
14 | It was agreed at this meeting that a Housing Sub-committee should be set up consisting of two representatives from the PC , two from the PCC and two other local people to be co-opted . |
15 | To that end , a working party was set up consisting of members of the Legal Services Committee and representatives of the CLE including the Dean , to work on the detailed proposals of the Law Society once they were made available and to put forward the Bar 's view . |
16 | Instead , a central fund for state property will be set up to sell large and medium-sized companies . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The Social Market Foundation was set up to serve David Owen 's Social Democrats , a party that no longer exists . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The Network was set up to enable journalists in the UK to campaign on behalf of journalists overseas who suffer human rights abuses . |
22 | An associated foundation has been set up to enable architects , art historians and archaeologists to investigate funerary rituals , art and culture . |
23 | TECHNIQUEST has been set up to enable visitors to touch and play with hands-on exhibits and experience scientific effects and phenomena . |
24 | The programme was set up to enable publishers from eastern and central Europe to visit British houses for short working attachments . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Special commissions are set up to scrutinize budgets and economic plans ( White et al. |
29 | An own goal yes , but even so , the review group was set up to smooth away a little local difficulty . |
30 | 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 . |