Example sentences of "sets [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the able support of a toff QC friend , Crispin , he sets about organising a petition . |
| 2 | In total darkness , without prior experience , and with the location of potential anchor points for the support structure unpredictable , a mere spider sets about constructing a precise and complex network of several different kinds of threads held together with hundreds of precisely placed ‘ welds ’ . |
| 3 | We now return to the specific issue of how the victim of misfortune sets about discovering the malevolent author of his distress . |
| 4 | Hymes ( 1964 ) sets about specifying the features of context which may be relevant to the identification of a type of speech event in a way reminiscent of Firth 's . |
| 5 | Once the schedule is agreed , the media sets about booking the spaces and times at the most advantageous prices they can get . |
| 6 | The engineer who sets about designing an efficient sonar or radar device soon comes up against a problem resulting from the need to make the pulses extremely loud . |
| 7 | Mill sets about resolving the situation in a way that causes him to become embroiled in a world of sex , violence and corruption . |
| 8 | Yet , despite inheriting a successful re-heat design under construction at Dunston ( Tyne and Wear ) on nationalisation , the CEB engineers doubted the operational flexibility of the re-heat sets in meeting the more variable load on the British Grid . |
| 9 | then sets to wooing the barmaid |