Example sentences of "set [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 3 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 4 | We will also need an ever greater sensitivity to our own responsibilities when we set forth to enjoy the countryside . |
| 5 | £20 million was " top-sliced " from joint finance budgets and set aside to fund a number of pilot projects . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption . |
| 10 | RIGS ( Regionally Important Geological Sites ) — set up to build a network of local voluntary groups to collect geological information on their areas . |
| 11 | The Bowley Committee — set up to review the constitution and the committee structure of the Bar Council . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ . |
| 14 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 15 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |
| 16 | After arrival at the capital of Reykjavik we watched in some trepidation as our heavily laden Landrover was swung out on a derrick and deposited on the quay , but all went well and as soon as we had cleared customs we set out to take a look at this bright little capital city . |
| 17 | Hencke , an organist in the German town of Hildesheim , published a book which set out to describe a secret of nature which the author had recently discovered . |
| 18 | BOTH Yeovil and Altrincham have dispatched League opposition 15 times but TODAY set out to settle the argument as to which non-League outfit 's record was , in fact , the more impressive . |
| 19 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 20 | Even so , the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco , almost to the point of beatification , could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds . |
| 21 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 22 | Thousands of years ago , when the first sailors set out to explore the world , there were no such things as maps and compasses . |
| 23 | Between them the scientists and philosophers set out to explain a universe , which , after the muddle of the Dark or Middle Ages , seemed to be flooded with clear light . |
| 24 | So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 . |
| 25 | This time with a light plastic bag containing nothing more than a sketchpad and a book ( Sleeman 's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official ) I set out to have a look at Roscommon Town . |
| 26 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 27 | In March 1306 , Robert Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone , so King Edward I again set out to meet the challenge but on the sands of the Solway , he died aged 68 , on 7th . |
| 28 | Recently , however , we have seen a growth in the number of private registered agencies , some of which set out to provide a combination of domestic and personal help to frail elderly people . |
| 29 | set out to provide an instrument to assess three dimensions of linguistic functioning : level of organisation , channel of communication and process ( See Figure 8.4 ) . |
| 30 | From this perspective , we set out to discover the plot of the social drama which the members of a particular community are in effect engaged in presenting , the parts or ‘ roles ’ that its members assume , and their mutual interaction as the play proceeds . |