Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [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 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 8 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 11 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 14 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 17 | They did n't set out to kill the children . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you set out to hurt the children in any way ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 22 | We must therefore set out to discover the sources of our common knowledge of stiffness and to define strain , stress and their relation . |
| 23 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 24 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 29 | Thousands of years ago , when the first sailors set out to explore the world , there were no such things as maps and compasses . |
| 30 | They set out to create the conditions where two hydrogen nuclei ( ‘ protons ’ ) could get close to each other , collide and join to make a nucleus of helium . |