Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 2 | These northern immigrants soon set about reinventing the climate here , which is on the damp side , and investing it with therapeutic properties it hardly possesses . |
| 3 | Do n't worry , stay calm and just set out to enjoy the experience . |
| 4 | Dialectical Theology thus set out to reverse the approach , and in particular to emphasise , first , the ‘ Godness of God ’ ; second , the reality of the Word of God in Jesus Christ ; third , the impossibility of building theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 5 | Taking a packet of Strands from his pocket Michael gave one to Geoffrey and after offering the pack to James , who refused , laboriously set about lighting the cigarettes . |
| 6 | As happened a decade before , the king quickly set about securing the return of his exiles . |
| 7 | Well I think it is impossible for anyone to totally avoid bringing in their own values into work that they 're doing to some extent , but I think it is possible to deliberately set out to involve the values of other people in the way that you carry out the work . |
| 8 | The National Heritage Memorial Fund has also set out to encourage the creation of individual charitable trusts for such houses . |
| 9 | The new government also set about confirming the land ownership rights of individual members of the population , in order to establish the responsibility for tax payment . |
| 10 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 11 | You see , the structure of authority is often set up to consolidate the position of the leader . |
| 12 | Large landowners , in particular , often set about cultivating the loyalty and affection of the local villagers , since this also conformed to the notion of noblesse oblige which was part of the ethic of the country gentleman . |
| 13 | Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide . |
| 14 | This model particularly set out to explain the consolidation of the Gaullist regime in France after the Fifth French Republic was established with a strong president in 1958 , a change which inaugurated an unbroken dominance of French national politics by right-wing parties for over two decades . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was elected president of French PEN in 1979 and immediately set about organising the world congress in Lyon . |
| 17 | In SAVE 's view this decision was self-contradictory and made a nonsense of the law , so SAVE immediately set about investigating the possibility of legal action . |
| 18 | Systematic medical inspection took place ( the famous ‘ hair raids ’ ) , and more robust instructions were issued to local authorities via circulars ( such as the charmingly entitled The Louse and How to Deal With It ) ; an official ‘ Louse Infestation Committee ’ was even set up to ponder the matter . |
| 19 | The National Insurance Act gave the newly set up exchanges the role of administering the system of unemployment benefit . |
| 20 | Roses clamber over arches , and hollies and beech hedges are strategically set out to tease the eye and multiply the number of views . |
| 21 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 22 | A project may be financed by equity finance in a company specifically set up to undertake the project , or by new equity introduced into an existing company . |