Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 2 | A year in Florence and the poetry of Dante have inspired him to set out to understand the influences in his life and work . |
| 3 | Herodotus of Halicarnassus , his Researches are here set down to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of our own and of other peoples ; and more particularly , to show how they came into conflict . |
| 4 | Harry believed it , too , and pity from Isambard was something he could not and would not bear ; the mere thought of giving his enemy that satisfaction made his jaws set desperately to prevent the emergence of even one word or sound that might be mistaken for an appeal . |
| 5 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 6 | We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside . |
| 7 | The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 10 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 11 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 12 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 13 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 14 | In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering . |
| 15 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 16 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 17 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 18 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 19 | They did n't set out to kill the children . |
| 20 | The accreditation test , which should be available by April 1994 , will set out to assess the representatives ' practical skills , their belief in the primacy of their professional duty to their clients and their knowledge of law and procedure . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you set out to hurt the children in any way ? ’ |
| 22 | In the Discourse of the Common Weal Smith ( to whom it is now attributed ) did not set out to delineate the structure of society , but rather to present and analyse the responses of the four main economic interests in the community to the crisis of the late 1540s . |
| 23 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 24 | We must therefore set out to discover the sources of our common knowledge of stiffness and to define strain , stress and their relation . |
| 25 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 26 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 27 | BOTH Yeovil and Altrincham have dispatched League opposition 15 times but TODAY set out to settle the argument as to which non-League outfit 's record was , in fact , the more impressive . |
| 28 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 29 | Even so , the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco , almost to the point of beatification , could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds . |
| 30 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |