Example sentences of "set out [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 2 | ‘ The facts you have set out make a sorry tale indeed . ’ |
| 3 | From all this sprang the paradox that orders like the Cistercian — which had set out to revive the old tradition that many monasteries should be away from the world , set apart , oases in the desert — encouraged journeying and laid on their leaders the obligation to travel often and far . |
| 4 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 5 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |