Example sentences of "who set [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the remainder of this chapter I will explore some of the ambiguities and problems which face those who set out to research the police and assess some of the fears of the academic incursion into police society . |
| 2 | Now , with the massive harvests of the 1980s , when the superabundant corn bows its head along the banks of our chastened , canalized rivers , many of those who set out to tame the flood have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams . |
| 3 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 4 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 5 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 6 | The wealth of Sir Herbert Leon , who had bought the Bletchley estate in 1883 and who set about transforming the house , was trumpeted loudly in the griffin statues on either side of the main entrance , in the exterior ‘ refinements ’ , in the florid plasterwork of friezes and ceilings , and in the opulent oak panelling and heavily elaborate carved details of the interior . |
| 7 | On their return to Holland they were contacted by Ivo at 4AD , who set about organising the Guernica debut . |