Example sentences of "set [adv] on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life . |
| 2 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 3 | Teachers and schools are of necessity partners in the business of curriculum reform and partners must set forth on an enterprise with an understanding of what it is about , and a certain confidence in the policies they pursue . |
| 4 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 5 | Most people provide small items set out on an open plan system , which gives the children a great deal of choice . |
| 6 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , much of what I have said about the writing of straightforward mystery stories applies just as much to inverted stories , the books that seemingly set out on an exactly opposite course . |
| 8 | Reviewing Pincher Martin , Amis once mildly reproached Golding for failing to ‘ turn his lifts of originality , of intransigence , and above all of passion to the world where we have to live ’ , since the novel is set remotely on an island in the Atlantic . |
| 9 | DURING my time in Germany ( 1984-88 ) the British Ambassadors in Bonn and East Berlin would twice a year set off on an official tour , once in his territory and once in mine , to gather impressions about the relationship between the two parts of the divided German nation and how it might develop . |
| 10 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |
| 11 | Flavia set out on an aimless walk . |
| 12 | On July 18 the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister , Shaikh Sabah al Ahmed al Jabir as Sabah , set out on an emergency tour of Kuwait 's five Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) partners ( Bahrain , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the UAE ) . |