Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [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 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 4 | Radiance Strathdee , the author of research carried out for Centrepoint , said this was not enough : ‘ There is a need for the government to get round the table with local authorities , not to lay down guidance , but to look at strategies to set about moving the impasse which exists ’ . |
| 5 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 6 | It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance . |
| 7 | One reason is that it may not leave sufficient motivation for the individuals to set about increasing the value of the company . |
| 8 | He arranged to return at the same time the next day to set about identifying the traitor in Tuwaithah . |
| 9 | This summer , Mr Clarke will expect Michael Portillo , the Treasury secretary and hatchet-man , and Peter Lilley , the social-security secretary , to set about planning the cuts , along with a drastic revamping of the welfare system . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Millions of pounds spent on satellite technology is wasted when people like me ignore Michael Fish yelling on television from behind some sandbags , ‘ For God 's sake take cover ! ’ as we set off to claim a Munro with a song in our hearts . |
| 12 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 13 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 14 | On a good day , eggs in their pockets , they would set off knowing the silver screen was theirs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 18 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 21 | Every committee , sub-committee and working party which we set up has a resource implication . |
| 22 | RIGS ( Regionally Important Geological Sites ) — set up to build a network of local voluntary groups to collect geological information on their areas . |
| 23 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 26 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 30 | You did n't set out to drive a car without knowing where the clutch is and what it does . |