Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village chiefs ask their people if they are willing to work on the water projects , and once agreed a project committee is set up carrying the authority of all involved . |
| 2 | These were set out facing the way the explorer had gone so as to ensure a good view of him on his return . |
| 3 | The conditions of engagement of the valuer are set out indicating the nature of the service he will perform and , so far as relevant , state : |
| 4 | In the new museum , a series of exhibits was set out illustrating the geology of the various regions of the country . |
| 5 | He was elected president of French PEN in 1979 and immediately set about organising the world congress in Lyon . |
| 6 | These northern immigrants soon set about reinventing the climate here , which is on the damp side , and investing it with therapeutic properties it hardly possesses . |
| 7 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 8 | In the space of a generation , we have set about wiping the blackboard clean . |
| 9 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 10 | It has set about systemising the information which is available about social work elsewhere . |
| 11 | As happened a decade before , the king quickly set about securing the return of his exiles . |
| 12 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 13 | Large landowners , in particular , often set about cultivating the loyalty and affection of the local villagers , since this also conformed to the notion of noblesse oblige which was part of the ethic of the country gentleman . |
| 14 | The new government also set about confirming the land ownership rights of individual members of the population , in order to establish the responsibility for tax payment . |
| 15 | In SAVE 's view this decision was self-contradictory and made a nonsense of the law , so SAVE immediately set about investigating the possibility of legal action . |
| 16 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |