Example sentences of "sets out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 2 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 3 | Straight and narrow Part one of David Stevens ' new series sets out the plans for his transformation of a long , narrow garden . |
| 4 | On reflection , however , this may not be quite true , since anyone who sets out to plant a wildlife garden instinctively takes a much keener interest in , and is influenced by , natural plant associations and communities . |
| 5 | They illustrate some of the problems the policeman/anthropologist faces when he sets out to describe and interpret police culture , for he must — if the ethnography is to count — reveal hidden aspects of the relationships of power which are an integral aspect of this institution of state . |
| 6 | Immediately the police officer/anthropologist sets out to undertake research or record fieldnotes he is forced to confront a moral dilemma . |
| 7 | Any insider who sets out to pursue a reflexive anthropology of policing eventually has to face difficulties which arise when he reaches an objective and analytic understanding of his society and its own specific versions of reality . |
| 8 | Indeed , institutional ideology sets out to ‘ strait-jacket minds and bodies and overcome individual thought ’ ( Foucault 1970 ) . |
| 9 | Yet movement is the very essence of being human and of the human condition which policing sets out to nullify . |
| 10 | The detective on the other hand , immediately sets out to reduce these culturally created separations , for he needs to negotiate a statistical reality with the ‘ dirty prig opposition ’ . |
| 11 | They can not deal with this situation by cutting quality : in a university , quality is the object of the exercise , and a university which sets out to lower quality is no more likely to survive than an army which sets out to lose its battles . |
| 12 | They can not deal with this situation by cutting quality : in a university , quality is the object of the exercise , and a university which sets out to lower quality is no more likely to survive than an army which sets out to lose its battles . |
| 13 | The Labour Party Conference : Kinnock sets out policies to win power : Warmly-received conference speech seen as change of gear for Labour in run-up to general election |
| 14 | This Bill , which sets out detailed mechanisms for settling disputes , could be passed early next week . |
| 15 | Ordnung , consultant psychologist to the Fleet Air Arm , sets out to understand why a perfectly normal red-blooded Sloane should suffer from the terrifying desire to write stories about helicopters that can speak . |
| 16 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 17 | And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him . |
| 18 | Adopting techniques long employed by the solicitors ' profession , the brochure sets out personal accounts of government legal work by serving lawyers . |
| 19 | IF EAST GERMANY finally sets out on the path to reform without further bloodshed and repression , it will be largely thanks to the efforts of the Protestant church . |
| 20 | The proposal sets out in detail how profits made , but not realised , by American customers of British brokers dealing in this country can be guaranteed against the broker 's financial failure . |
| 21 | Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) trainer Hart sets out to familiarise his reader with the equipment , rigging and de-rigging techniques and how to recognise a good sailing location . |
| 22 | William Perkins sets out the conventional position vis-à-vis class . |
| 23 | The procedure is first for the Pastoral Committee of the Diocese to consult the Council for Places of Worship , receiving from it a report which sets out the architectural qualities and historic interest of the building . |
| 24 | This publication sets out to remedy that fault and also offers important information about relevant educational changes taking place in all schools , which affects your child . |
| 25 | They also made such one-off comedies as The Green Man ( 1957 ) , in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sets out to prevent a sour-faced captain of industry from being blown up . |
| 26 | But the bill sets out a tight framework which will limit the judges ' scope for blocking extra advocacy rights for solicitors . |
| 27 | Bigoted detective sergeant Robert Spallen sets out to bring a notorious IRA terrorist to book . |
| 28 | ‘ Certainly no one sets out to be patronising . |
| 29 | ‘ Certainly no one sets out to be patronising . |
| 30 | Published last month , it sets out a strategic intent and direction for the health service , priorities for progress and practical steps to be taken — in Wales . |