Example sentences of "[be] to set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 2 | Darlington Council 's next plan is to set to work improving the derelict land sites bordering the River Skerne . |
| 3 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 4 | The objective of all the Departments within the Faculty of Humanities is to set before students the example of the highest standards of performance , to teach them to think for themselves , to develop their individual abilities , and to express their ideas cogently and objectively . |
| 5 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 6 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 7 | One of Rayner 's first acts was to set in train a series of efficiency scrutinies within Whitehall . |