Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 2 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 3 | He subsequently set off to explore the county on foot as far as Lands End and his notes show that his book , had it been written , would have contained some far-fetched fantasies — as well as straight inaccuracies . |
| 4 | She finished her coffee , and set off to explore the town . |
| 5 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 6 | Shelley made up her mind , and set off to walk the quarter of a mile . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Armed with a lamp , Dyson set off to check the connection . |
| 9 | He immediately set off to hand the purse and its contents into the Clansford club office and there he found a distressed but very grateful Mrs Edie Moon ( 82 ) , Clansford 's oldest supporter . |
| 10 | He ordered Sergeant Yates to take the bulk of the party to the rendezvous , while he himself set off to reconnoitre the escarpment with Sergeant Tait . |
| 11 | ‘ She said she thought Dick and Joy had forgotten they were to pick her up , so she set off to catch the bus . ’ |
| 12 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
| 13 | The scheme has run into some difficulties in finding both sites and sponsors , although the City Technology Colleges Trust , set up to promote the scheme , claims that the programme is on course to meet its target . |
| 14 | The ‘ substantial case ’ for compensation was underlined yesterday by the local authority co-ordinating committee set up to represent the interest of councils which lost money . |
| 15 | The players will form part of a six man committee set up to oversee the Subscription Scheme which chairman Wallace Mercer hopes will entice fans to help pay for the renovations . |
| 16 | A special steering group set up to examine the idea has chosen Citigen , a joint venture between British Gas and two French energy management companies , from six tenders for the system . |
| 17 | Across the table sat the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ) , a Beijing front organisation set up to give the SEF a liaison partner . |
| 18 | The Renewable Energy Advisory Group , set up to advise the government , has recommended that Britain aim to produce 1,500 megawatts of energy from renewable sources by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | The Animal Procedures Committee , set up to advise the government on animal experiments , recommended that there was sufficient evidence of sentience to give one species of invertebrate , the common octopus , protection . |
| 20 | The Farm Animal Welfare Council , an independent body set up to advise the Ministry of Agriculture , suggested that 600 square centimetres should be adopted as a minimum allowance in Europe . |
| 21 | And an action group set up to fight the route looks set to demand a meeting with Mr Hunt 's successor , John Redwood . |
| 22 | A parliamentary commission set up to investigate the extent of the responsibility of the security service ( StB ) for , and the political background to , the violent police action against student demonstrators on Nov. 17 , 1989 [ see p. 37026 ] published its report on May 9 . |
| 23 | When pressed , he cites a small diversification into an in-house public relations agency , Tiphook Communications , set up to handle the company 's account and to win outside business — which it never got . |
| 24 | The new council set up to reform the judiciary fell under the control of the Supreme Court , which was generally seen as being heavily under the influence of Cristiani 's right-wing ruling National Republic Alliance ( Arena ) . |
| 25 | This report is concerned with an NFER project set up to study the feasibility of devising tests in mathematics at several levels of difficulty , for lower attaining pupils aged 14 to 16 years . |
| 26 | There is another brown-field alternative that has not been investigated : to build a new RIBA administrative building on a new site and sell 66 Portland place to the trust set up to operate the architecture centre and the library . |
| 27 | US$140,000,000 already pledged by the International Development Association towards a social fund set up to cushion the impact of economic reforms [ see p. 38209 ] was to be topped up to US$500,000,000 . |
| 28 | The money will be distributed by the Charities Aid Foundation , set up to co-ordinate the raising and distribution of funds to other charities . |
| 29 | He even had a ready made foundation for the new bank — the Equivalent Company set up to administer the money and debentures paid to Scotland as a compensation for some pre-Union perfidy on the part on the English . |
| 30 | Some ten to fifteen years later the French eyewitness accounts were to be corroborated by their erstwhile enemies at the court of enquiry set up to determine the extent and nature of the pillage by the Prussian troops involved in the pursuit . |