Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millions of pounds spent on satellite technology is wasted when people like me ignore Michael Fish yelling on television from behind some sandbags , ‘ For God 's sake take cover ! ’ as we set off to claim a Munro with a song in our hearts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An army camp that was set up to support the Normandy landings and has become the lynchpin of the British Army is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 6 | Two commissions were set up to regulate the Danube , on which no warships were to be allowed below the Iron Gates . |
| 7 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 8 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 9 | According to some commentators the Myanman military had set out to capture the Karens ' last two bases on the Thai border ( Manerplaw and Kawmoora ) by March 27 , the country 's Armed Forces Day . |
| 10 | First , it deliberately sets out to extend the North 's horizons and raise its sights , believing thus that is internal vision will expand . |
| 11 | Now , through Liquorsave , he is setting out to conquer the UK market . |
| 12 | A system of self-regulatory organisations ( SROs ) was set up under the auspices of the DTI and the Securities and Investments Board , the latter set up to authorise the SROs and oversee their operations . |
| 13 | Claiming that Zimbabweans in Mozambican uniforms were operating in 52 other places ( in seven of Mozambique 's 11 provinces ) , the MNR complained of an alleged lack of impartiality on the part of the international Joint Verification Commission ( JVC ) set up to monitor the Rome agreement . |
| 14 | In the short run he wished to rally moderate Indian opinion , which had been put out of countenance by its non-inclusion in the Simon Commission , set up to review the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1927 ; in the long term he wished to save India for the Commonwealth . |
| 15 | Gorbachev set out to correlate the CPSU 's policy of " humane and democratic socialism " with Marxism . |
| 16 | The capitalist class are concentrated and centred in the government of this country today to an extent they never were before ; they are using the House of Commons for the purpose of defeating the working class organisations of this country , and the cooperative movement realised when the government set out to challenge the N.U.R . |
| 17 | In 1948 , a Troon lawyer called George Hamilton , set out to revive the Kilwinning Society and called a public meeting in Kilwinning , at which it was reconstituted . |
| 18 | He set out to launch a North American colony to which Catholics could retreat to avoid the discrimination that seemed to have become unalterably established in England and in New England . |
| 19 | CLAUDIE Garner did n't hang about when she set out to break a UK speed record . |
| 20 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 21 | On their return to Holland they were contacted by Ivo at 4AD , who set about organising the Guernica debut . |
| 22 | He set about reshaping the Canterbury community with great vigour and clarity of aim . |
| 23 | On the grandfather 's death , the farm was taken over by a bachelor son who set about founding a Clydesdale stud . |