Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] set " in BNC.

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1 In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well .
2 As long ago as 1985 we set out our intention to remove students ' general entitlement to certain benefits .
3 On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together .
4 Between five and six we set out .
5 In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country .
6 By daylight it was clear they had missed their rendezvous , and at about 0800 they set course for Malta , taking a back-bearing from Mount Etna .
7 On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service .
8 In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system .
9 In Chapter 6 we set out a dual-route model of reading aloud , distinguishing between a lexical procedure and a non-lexical procedure for converting print to speech .
10 At eleven they set off on the heralded and substantial walk .
11 The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work .
12 In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not .
13 According to Boswell , ‘ Between twelve and one we set out , and travelled eleven miles , through a wild country , till we came to a house in Glenmorison [ the modern spelling adds a ‘ t ’ — Glenmoriston : Johnson calls it Glenmollison ] called Anoch , kept by a McQueen . ’
14 Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens .
15 So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey .
16 In Chapter 15 we set out the basic case for allowing free markets to allocate resources .
17 In Chapter Four I set Out some of the reasons why conferences and other big events are held .
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