Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 2 | We set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout . |
| 3 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 4 | And if they ever did set out to open up this place , ’ he said consideringly , ‘ there are a dozen more important places to begin , of course . ’ |
| 5 | THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 6 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 7 | The chapter tells the story of a small-scale research project which set out to study how experienced teachers were developing ‘ collaborative ’ methods of working . |
| 8 | Housing Action Trusts ( HATs ) are set up to take over run-down estates from local authorities . |
| 9 | A new CAT has now been set up to go down that avenue . |
| 10 | Details are given of the Clwyd Environmental Forum , which was set up to provide locally active organisations and statutory bodies with an opportunity to discuss issues of concern to the county 's environment and to promote the interchange of information and experience . |
| 11 | This group was set up to bring together young Asian people who could organize around issues affecting them — not least the worrying trend of the National Front gaining increasing numbers of votes , and in some cases Asian votes . |
| 12 | The committee that produced this report was set up to consider how public schools ( defined as those belonging to the Headmasters ' Conference or the Governing Bodies Association , together with ‘ comparable schools for girls ’ ) could develop and extend their association with the general education system . |
| 13 | The Wage Councils were set up to establish legally enforceable minimum wages for employees and associated trades and prevented unfair competition . |
| 14 | Wahlitits , with his cousin Sarpsis Ilppilp ( Red Moccasin Tops ) and nephew Swan Necklace , had set out to do just that . |
| 15 | The Plastics Waste Management Institute ( PWMI ) of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe recently set out to discover how much plastic is consumer in Europe and where it ends up . |
| 16 | Perhaps it will be suggested that there is an incoherence in setting out to have partly false beliefs , but that there is no similar incoherence in setting out to have emotional conflict and even a certain amount of chaos in one 's behaviour . |
| 17 | Adjoining the exhibition in Shop No. 20 are the workshops of Swindon Railway Workshops Ltd. , a company set up to carry out complete overhauls to locomotives , carriages and wagons ( or their major components ) for preservation societies , private owners and museums such as the N.R.M. many of the employees are ex the old Swindon works . |