Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what Richard Nixon should really have discussed with George Allen was how to set about reforming the wretched business of campaign finance . |
| 2 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 3 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 4 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 5 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 6 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 7 | How a long-net is used to surround a warren , with one or more nets set internally to subdivide the enclosed area to restrict rabbit movements . |
| 8 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 9 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 10 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 11 | The intention was that we should set out to count the big sales first . |
| 12 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 13 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |
| 14 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 15 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 16 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 17 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 18 | The news of the school uplift reached the two shopping in Kirkwall before they set out to travel the twenty miles or so back home . |
| 19 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 20 | It intervened to regulate trade ; in 1651 the republican Parliament passed a Navigation Act which set out to protect the English shipping trade by laying down that imports could be taken to the ports of England or of English colonies only by English ships or by those of the country that produced the goods . |
| 21 | set there to keep the evil spirits out . |
| 22 | Begun under the Labour government of Mr David Lange and his Finance Minister , Mr ( now Sir ) Roger Douglas , the reforms set about dismantling the generous subsidies to farming , New Zealand 's largest industry . |
| 23 | That defeat closed the west to the Magyars who then set about colonising the Pannonian plain and founding the state we now know as Hungary . |
| 24 | How schools set about developing the statutory orders in the context of whole — curriculum policies represents a significant challenge for leadership and , not the least in primary schools , the strategies adopted by headteachers . |
| 25 | After TB was diagnosed , he stopped work immediately and hospital staff set about contacting the 500 children and 500 staff who he had been in contact with him in the weeks before he became ill . |
| 26 | With this in mind , he introduced Wolfgang to the public at a concert at Salzburg university in the autumn of 1761 , and then set about arranging the first of their many international tours . |
| 27 | When we set about designing the new Apex , there was one particular feature around which the cooker was to be built … you . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , with the sweet taste of victory over bureaucracy in our mouths , we set about disbanding the old Amateur Radio Association , relinquishing the amateur call letters 1OAB , and organizing a commercial company , CHAB , Limited . |
| 29 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 30 | Although there were no Viet Cong in the village and not a shot was fired at them , they set about slaughtering the Vietnamese civilians with a primitive and sexual savagery that is hard to believe . |