Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] set [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many young American composers he studied with Nadia Boulanger , but after 1925 set out to achieve the ‘ discipline of spontaneity ’ which he found in Stein 's writings . |
| 2 | Their Housing Finance Act of 1972 set out to adapt the ‘ fair-rent ’ principle , which Labour had applied to private rents in the 1960s , to the local authority sector . |
| 3 | Acheson himself in the early months of 1950 set out to imbue the British and other members of Nato with a greater sense of urgency . |
| 4 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke in particular set out to magnify the Soviet shortcomings . |
| 5 | Making comparisons between two sets also enables the child to establish a relationship between them , and is one step towards the later understanding of the relationship ‘ is greater than ’ or ‘ is less than ’ between two numbers . |