set about

Pasteur was intrigued by these observations and set about to understand how the crystals differed from one another.

Freud simply set about trying to understand the nature of this helpless bondage to repeated anguish.

Given that this was an MES upgrade and that wasn't going to change, I set about planning for the upgrade.

Trying to find a space suit to do this has lead me to an area of technology that I never really expected when I set about doing this.

We stayed up another half an hour talking, but only because we were too tired to set about going to bed.

The young worker found a lot of shortcomings in himself and he set about getting rid of it.

Anna and I clambered into the bed and set about puffing, grunting and lip- smacking , all the while trying to turn the pages of our scripts.

Tom had joined the company just a year before, at age 28, and he immediately set about getting noticed.

Then, just when he thought they might not know everything, they set about shaping a snowman on the crest of the hill.

In Brussels, he took responsibility for competition policy and set about breaking down economic barriers.

If it turns out to be really good, people would set about recommending it to friends and the sales of this product will go up very quickly.

I researched each animal in depth to see how I could transfer it to a hand, and then set about bringing it to life.

The moment he took over in September as Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe set about repairing the fractured Sino-Japanese relationship.

Once Henry had made it clear to the manager that he wanted to leave, the Arsenal manager set about getting the best deal for the club.

At least the Thatcher government felt able to cut taxes as it set about privatiseing utilities and hacking back corporatist controls.

I had never done any of this before so I had her tell me what she knew and I set about doing my own research to get more information.

Jirtle and Waterland set about to see if they could change the unfortunate genetic legacy of these little creatures.

If I were to preach at all in this strain, I should say rather, Set about being good.

When you set about to get something for nothing, what you end up with is nothing worth having.

Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.

We moved in, and set about replanting the garden with great gusto, buying tools, seeds, fertilizer, etc.

He set about transforming and reinventing the company from top to bottom, with a goal to make GE "the world's most competitive enterprise" .

The first on-site session was to be held in mid-April at Coimbatore and I set about working on the project.

But when he set about doing it, he came to a sudden awareness that nothing is so easy if one wants to do it better.

A veritable mountain of scrupulously sorted battery cells. The next thing is to set about recovering the mercury.

She would have wanted me to go on with my life, and set about finding another woman to give my love to.

Then, in her 20s, she set about acquiring the tragic worldliness that the timbre of her voice conveyed.

john set about his task with an air of quiet confidence.

This paper try to set about the background of Irish Famine, to analyse the depravation of Famine and the cause of this crucial tragedy.

"Our estimates were set about three months ago. They may be a bit high in this environment, " said Mr Dolman.

Workers set about trying to seal the crack Saturday and Sunday.

So like any diligent scientist, he set about trying to derive one.

She set about trying to find out everything she possibly could about cancer.

But she was an impudent, rude little girl, and so she set about helping herself.

So scientists have set about trying to manufacture their own.

He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard.

On the contrary, with great thought and care they set about 'educating' you to conform to the old pattern with some modification.

Instead of going out for a jog or walk, I'll set about my work as soon as I'm out of bed.

As the supreme leader of the Soviet state, Gorbachev set about to reform its economy and the stagnating Communist Party.

Straight away, Farrell set about buying the surrounding area and turning it into a butterfly wonderland.

We got a few handsome red-and-white simmental cattle and set about raising a small herd. Keith began chemotherapy.

The technical and moral values of Italian football had to be upheld and that was the attitude when we set about our task.

You have kicked the standard of God to the curb and you have set about to put your own form of righteousness into place and it is worthless!

After studying the structures of these knots, the devotees set about creating new variations and increasing the decorative value of knots.

Deciding to stay for a night nearby, Jamey set about forming a project to photograph the bridge as it's put together step-by-step.

having decided to rent a flat , we set about contacting all the accommodation agencies in the city.

The BL therefore set about to establish some standards for filming for large-scale newspaper digitisation and guidelines for best practice.

He set about raising all army of his own to win back the lands lost in the recent campaign.

Expenses and toxic assets had to be reduced and he set about the job with the zeal of a proven risk manager.

He set about preparing some grill cheese sandwiches and a chilled salad, accompanied by amber tumblers of fresh sweetened ice tea.

With a focus on three key areas of travel, energy wastage, and recycling, we set about creating a campaign that would achieve this target.

Then they set about gathering up the dropped supply containers in the peaceful fragrant meadow under a glittery moon .

Even so, three years later, when he set about modernising China, he put the PLA last in the queue, behind farming, industry and science.

She set about ridding herself of her foreign identity and venerating her late husband's memory.

Based on books, hearsay, and experience in other projects, we set about the task of defining the XP processes to which we would adhere.

Song 7: 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor, thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Shatin , whose name combines the characters for " sand" and " field" , was a rural landscape when Mr Tsang set about transforming it .

When all the grain had been removed, he set about helping homeless women and children to places of safety.

One day shortly after my wife and I were married, we set about picking new living-room wallpaper from a book of samples.

Eager both to demonstrate and to enhance his power, he set about enlarging and embellishing it in an extravagant fashion.

Others, however, enjoy the process and set about on a mission of thorough investigation of a particular suburb or area.

Right after the announcement, Berliners armed with mallets and chisels set about to dismantle the Wall.

Gathering up the thread of his story, he set about writing.

She set about dedicating herself and her sizable inheritance to returning Mother's Day to its reverent roots.

Determined to make Qin a powerful state he set about looking for men of talent to help him do so.

We 'll set about booking the shipping space Immediately and try to effect shipment within the limited time .

She set about answering letters as soon as she arrived at the office.

With the help of these relationships, Reliance set about making the most of India's famous "Licence Raj" .

She trusted her littlest knight and upon hearing the whole story set about immediately to make a healing salve for the dragon's eyes.

Previously, dissent had been crushed, most visibly when Ms Fiorina set about merging HP with Compaq.

What happened was the National Museum of Wales set about finding new species, or sub-species of trees.

It has set about the rehearsing of Hainan dialectal songs and has hired professional musicians to adapt and compose many new repertoires.

Insee, the French statistics agency, would set about incorporating the new indicators in its accounting, Mr Sarkozy said.

The CIA ignored the howls of Pakistani officials and set about decimating al-Qaeda's ranks along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

The irony is that Fechner set about this huge mountain of rather hard-headed measurements for quite whimsical reasons.

"The Far Horizons" is set about 200 years after "Pocahontas, " but it's just as inaccurate.

The Macphails, condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at Pago-pago, set about making the best of things.

I advise you to set about your work without delay.

Prince Ivan broke the egg, took the needle out, and set about breaking the point off.

or he (and those around him) will set about using the president's immense powers to try to sap Mr Putin's strength.

They also set about acquiring land to add to the reservation, which ultimately resulted in its dramatic expansion.

In fact, unless you deliberately set about to include more ' raucous ' people into your inner circle, you will inevitably turn to stone.

She set about telling me about how the pigs and chickens were treated, quoting chapter and verse from your book.

Then we set about fixing the chosen branches along the wires with Flexi-Tie, an elastic string which allows for growth.

Google set about scanning the world's books, confident that it could deal with the niceties of copyright law later.

Soon, the lawyer set out to documents, He set about collecting evidences.

Therefore, it is important for airports to set about the research of the effective recovery measurements.

So he set about finding a glass that would be strong and resistant to scratches.

Late on Sunday night in Albert Park, the entire team set about re-preparing the two race cars and packing everything into containers.

Rather than accepting the toxins from the remnants of mines in the upper river valley, Missoula has set about cleaning them up.

The Kyoto protocol, which set about realising those aims, was signed in 1997 and came into force in 2005.

With the increased revenue, Colonel Qaddafi set about building roads, hospitals, schools and housing.

This paralyzed their land reform agenda. So they set about amending the constitution to eclipse even this little protection.

Consequently the Japanese set about to provide a supply of pure water.

Elaine plucked a twig from the offending japonica and set about its systematic defoliation with savage concentration.

Various continental European countries also set about recapitalising their banks.

He sat down at the table and set about his work.

I also set about constructing a student guide, a facilitators' guide, a guide to further reading, and session descriptions.

AS THEY set about building a government coalition in mid-February, many of Israel's politicians proclaimed a need for electoral reform.

So I set about to change this with a new approach called "compassionate conservatism. "

Since his return from France he has set about fixing up the household with cheerful pragmatism.

After breakfast, my mother set about her household duties.

With the FIFA World Cup as a pretext, the Brazilians set about building the biggest football stadium in the world.

She set about her housework straight after breakfast.

The adjustment that the price of real estate should be set about from many aspects.

Oh, I forgot - then you set about making weak neighbouring countries complicit in policies that violate human rights!

Thus, the research of minor contract fraud behavior reflect one value tropism what must set about from the legal regulation.

The regime has set about muzzling the media and issuing its own counter-propaganda.

On arriving at the office, he set about working on the project.

After breakfast, she set about her household duties.

Researchers from ETH Zurich set about finding a way to rectify the defect and restore the subtle control of the uric acid level.

But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God?

In a very forceful speech he set about his critics.

Chandler jettisoned the anti-union dogma and set about building a west-coast rival to the New York Times.

I set aside thoughts of mice and set about patching up the household.

A generation ago, during a previous resource boom, African states set about building roads and railways.

I set about researching the habits of snakes so I could trap them in the easiest way.

We set about developing the application and then deciding on the infrastructure that we would need to support the application.

The next morning they woke and set about cleaning and sweeping the house.

So I set about destroying all the barriers that I had previously erected.

You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it .

In the past decade German firms, unions and politicians have set about making their export economy competitive, with spectacular results.

Self-made men all, the Roosevelt appointees at first set about "functioning as a team" , Mr Feldman writes.

Japanese leaders set about with characteristic tenacity to restore Japan's position.

And set about establishing fault gases growth model to predict the development of a failure to determine the basis.

She set about her housework after breakfast.

We set about looking into treatment programmes for emotionally and behaviourally disordered children.

the repair shops are humming as the tradesmen set about their various tasks.

The younger Sulzberger took over in 1992 and set about hiring and promoting minorities and encouraging aggressive advocacy by them.

I dont know how to set about this job.

I don' t know how to set about this job.

Japan got rich and fell in with the European powers before it brutally set about colonising Asia.

After making Ms Tymoshenko prime minister, he promptly set about undermining her.

At Harvard's Kennedy School, she set about rethinking unionism from first principles.

With the language established, Cameron set about naming everythingonhis alien planet.

The whole firm, working as a team, set about rectifying his mistake.

To begin some activity is to set about doing it.

Under orders from the prefectural government, scientists set about replanting the tree and cloning it.

The prevention of female criminality in the university should set about in many ways.

Never one to shirk a challenge, Tony set about his task of raising sales revenue by 20 percent within two months.

They set about clearing away the big fore derrick and testing the winch .

I write under extreme pressure or just by accident. It's not something I do, you know. And he set about, he just went to work.

These companies set about building roads, bridges, irrigation works and some housing schemes of dubious merit.

Having decided to go to prison, Soapy at once set about fulfilling his desire.

The new government must set about finding solutions to the country's economic problems.

The team set about migrating the identified business units into Blue Insight.

When she returned home, Zeng Zi sharpened his knife and set about to kill the pig .

When you deliberately set about to love, then you are violent.

They established Camp 2 immediately below the buttress, and the climbers set about solving the problem of the steep rock wall above.

Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

He asked me how he should set about teaming the German language.

First, he set about research on expressions about making a call.

The statisticians in his team then set about creating a model to predict pregnancy outcome based on these factors.

Then she set about her working on the report.

The little fellow rolled up his sleeves and set about the bully.

She arrived home to a heroine's welcome, and we all set about welcoming the new pets into our home.

North Korea must set about finding solutions to the nuclear crisis.

The movie, set about 150 years in the future, follows a former Marine who travels to a distant world inhabited by exotic creatures.

Set about your essay writing effort by listing your achievements.

As soon as she got home, she set about preparing lunch.

That evening he set about writing a report on pollution.

We then set about creating a suitable development environment.

Clauser set about constructing a machine that would finally settle the debate.

Having made up my mind, I immediately set about carrying out my plan.

They are manmade, is their cry, and they set about to prove this by all manner of disinformation campaigns.

They set about making preparations for spring sowing.

How about this? What if we looked at ourselves and decided what we liked and didn't like and set about making changes.

The author set about to writing a new Book.

But in the event he managed to get the plan approved and will now set about balancing Italy's budget by 2013.

And when does the Chinese side plan to set about preparing to construct this system?

When they heard the police sirens, they all set about saving their own skins.

commence, embark on, proceed, set about, start, start up.

He set about his adversary in strong language.

He set about helping homeless women and children to place of safety.

We set about cleaning up the mess.

He set about his homework right after supper.

The new owner set about renovating the old building .

The government set about eliminating the religions with mass executions and deportations.

On arriving there, they set about doing the experiment.

She set about the report after breakfast and handed it in at noon.

Brilliant entrepreneurs like Soichiro Honda and Akio Morita at Sony set about building the future.

She lit the fire and set about making the soup.

The Gerdses built a facility just off Pinecone Road and set about building their client base.

Then the Senate committees can set about adding pork.

Ever since Deng Xiaoping set about reforming the economy in 1978, China has talked peace.

From a long-term point of view, it is time for us to set about solving this problem.

Mr Levin said that while he set about realising his vision, the staff were fretting about what would happen to them.

The three men, after a short preliminary explanation, now set about their preparation to move the ark in earnest.

If you don't already have a business logo, you should set about getting one that reflects the nature of your ecommerce business.

Now Candler set about making Coca Cola a household word.

set about George set about learning Chinese at age nine.

As soon as she arrived she set about tidying up the room.

He set about doing his homework right after supper.

Bloggs thanked her and greedily set about the sandwich.

Teammate Jorge Lorenzo, meanwhile, has set about the task of learning the unique circuit on his first on-track appearance in America.

We set about our task at once with great enthusiasm.

That evening he set about writing a re port on pollution.

The lawyer set about probing the accident.

Start to work at sth. ; Set about doing sth.

He was overlooked when they set about choosing a new manager.

He set about measuring brain volumes.

And then , in 1975, Steven Jobs set about making a new type of computer .

She set about clearing up after the party.

That evening he set about writing the report.

Next, university psychologists set about therapeutically frightening patients who have a fear of insects.

Do you know how to set about it?

I would rather he set about doing the homework now.

Since then, he has set about shaking up MasterCard's sleepy culture.

He set about the task with becoming precautions.

The earlier you set about your work, the sooner you will finish it.

Named boss incrementally between 2000 and 2003, he quickly set about overhauling the firm.

we set about cleaning the sitting room.

She set about planning her holiday.

He set about preparing the supper.

The two hooligans set about each other at once.

He set about learning Chinese at age ten.

The sooner we set about it the sooner we'll finish.

When she set about job-hunting, a friend advised her to spruce herself up, since first impressions have a huge role to play.

I suggest to them that they set about work immediately.

They set about creating a union that was both broad and deep.

He knows how to set about doing these things.

She set about the business of cleaning the house.

Place frittata in broiler until top is set, about 1 minute.

I'll set about preparing supper.

He won an election in 1999 and, after a slow start, set about tackling many of Nigeria's long-term problems.

I'd better set about making coffee.

And so , in fact, he actually set about doing a variety of things. Built the Tesla coil .

He is too idle to set about the task.

They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.

Then have the alarm set about 30 minutes after the suns fully up.

They set about each other fiercely.

How should we set about our work?

We set about cleaning the house.

A data set about your data.

Our dog set about the postman.

I must set about my packing.

In America he set about rescuing the economy and reforming health care.

Take your time, and set about some free labor.

The girl has set about cleaning the room.

And so we have set about doing that.

How do you set about a thing like that?

I am sure many of us will set about it straight away.

He doesn't know how to set about doing the job.

How do you set about building a boat?

Last year, I set about writing a book.

Signor Pastrini had already set about procuring their disguises for the morrow; and he assured them that they would be perfectly satisfied

And it is this self that we must first accept and then set about to change.

Europe must set about redesigning the system as a whole

he set about this job in completely the wrong way

To insist on the direction of the advanced culture and set about Henan re - Difangzhi work