Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 3 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 8 | RIGS ( Regionally Important Geological Sites ) — set up to build a network of local voluntary groups to collect geological information on their areas . |
| 9 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 12 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 13 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |
| 14 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 15 | You did n't set out to drive a car without knowing where the clutch is and what it does . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 18 | I did n't deliberately set out to become an insomniac , but such an attitude fits into the general anorexic pattern , and should be seen as a part of it . |
| 19 | ‘ I did not set out to make a fool of you . |
| 20 | But it was the knowledge that he 'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most . |
| 21 | It is likely that he will set out to make a deal with the aborigines , offering compensation in return for legislation that clarifies their rights over land . |
| 22 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 23 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 24 | After arrival at the capital of Reykjavik we watched in some trepidation as our heavily laden Landrover was swung out on a derrick and deposited on the quay , but all went well and as soon as we had cleared customs we set out to take a look at this bright little capital city . |
| 25 | Hencke , an organist in the German town of Hildesheim , published a book which set out to describe a secret of nature which the author had recently discovered . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 30 | Thousands of years ago , when the first sailors set out to explore the world , there were no such things as maps and compasses . |