Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] the " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance . |
| 5 | So what Richard Nixon should really have discussed with George Allen was how to set about reforming the wretched business of campaign finance . |
| 6 | One reason is that it may not leave sufficient motivation for the individuals to set about increasing the value of the company . |
| 7 | He arranged to return at the same time the next day to set about identifying the traitor in Tuwaithah . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Set peacefully overlooking the lake on a headland , the Serbelloni is nevertheless convenient for the centre , steamer and hydrofoil departure points . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 13 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 14 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 15 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 16 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 17 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 18 | We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside . |
| 19 | On a good day , eggs in their pockets , they would set off knowing the silver screen was theirs . |
| 20 | How a long-net is used to surround a warren , with one or more nets set internally to subdivide the enclosed area to restrict rabbit movements . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 24 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 27 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 28 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |