Example sentences of "set about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the Association 's Honorary Wings Appeal Organisers , together with enthusiastic and voluntary helpers , set about the challenge with such determination and energy that a total of £2,437,637 was reached , an increase of 47% on the pervious year . |
| 2 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 3 | Fortunately this did not stop the women from trying , and Basnett , senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick , describes in some detail the individual practitioners who set about the task . |
| 4 | Charity relieved him of it carefully and set about the operation with skill and familiarity . |
| 5 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 6 | Neil Foster produced a very good ball to claim Dominic Cork — Mike Garnham 's third catch of the morning — but Steve Rhodes , 39 , and Ian Salisbury , 36 , set about the Essex attack with gusto in an unbroken eighth-wicket partnership of 66 before the lunchtime declaration . |
| 7 | The right building in the West End would have been expensive , so the company bought Porters South in 1988 for £2.7 million — and set about the £10.3 million conversion . |
| 8 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 9 | He ordered a dozen men to remain in the house whilst the rest of the company set about the business of rousing the neighbourhood with enquiry . |
| 10 | He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . |
| 11 | Kalchu , Nara and Kāli fetched the wooden shovels and , standing thigh-high in the snow , set about the long work of clearing the roof . |
| 12 | Ramsay did not exactly cheer , but Will noticed a certain lightening in his brother 's step thereafter , as he set about the business of summoning men . |
| 13 | We completed the agenda with time to spare and set about the ‘ European ’ items with a will . |
| 14 | After disbanding the Japanese military , releasing political prisoners and legalizing opposition political organizations , the US set about the task of writing a new constitution . |
| 15 | And , secondly , company law set about the task of demonstrating that the power of corporate managers was not unlimited but was subject to checks and controls which ensured that it could not be used for the manager 's own purposes or for any other arbitrary end . |
| 16 | The IMF set about the problem by devising the special drawing right ( SDR ) as a means of settlement among its members . |
| 17 | They immediately set about the task of pushing the jostling photographers away from the limousine . |
| 18 | Upon his accession he set about the introduction of the Norman feudal system by dividing his realm up into feus or fiefs , and gave monopolistic trade charters to many towns on whose loyalty he henceforth hoped to rely . |
| 19 | The Conservative Government , under Mrs Thatcher , set about the task straight away . |
| 20 | The team that ended the 1960s was dumped , and Ripley-Rust and Pybus set about the daunting task of building a squad capable of winning promotion when the club 's League career got underway again . |
| 21 | On the contrary , he set about the formation of the National government with an enthusiasm which showed that the adventure was highly agreeable to him . |
| 22 | With funding , public support and a large space available , the steering committee set about the task of providing guide lines and selectors . |
| 23 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |
| 24 | As assistant director of the Geological Survey of Scotland ( 1901–11 ) Horne established harmonious working conditions , set about the revision of the work on Scottish coalfields , saw to the publication of many memoirs , and recruited excellent young geologists . |
| 25 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 26 | Following demobilisation , he set about the rehabilitation of the Trinidad Workingmen 's Association , whilst at the same time getting himself elected as mayor of Port of Spain . |
| 27 | This was seized upon by Walter Marshall when he became Director of Harwell in 1969 and set about the development of commercial work for industry . |
| 28 | The Development Office set about the business of fundraising and , in November , we were delighted to receive news that The Robertson Trust wished to increase its support for the extension , leaving the University with a fraction of the bill to pay . |
| 29 | Both boats then reversed in front of me and two people from each boat set about the bridge , trying to free it . |
| 30 | Undaunted , however , by these prospects , Gould set about the preparations for his journey with systematic thoroughness , and , considering the multitude of decisions that had to be made , remarkable clearheadedness . |