Example sentences of "[noun sg] sets [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research sets out to study the introduction of a new domestic technology the microwave oven , tracing its life-trajectory through a string of case studies . |
| 2 | The Child Support Act sets out to increase the amount of maintenance paid by former partners , both in terms of the actual amounts paid by individuals and in terms of the number of people paying . |
| 3 | The test sets out to examine the child 's command of a range of syntactic forms in terms of both comprehension and production . |
| 4 | Drawing from the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ortega Gasset and from the history of science , the author sets out to define the nature of psychological life which , he believes , has been obscured by too-ready an acceptance of psychology as part of the natural sciences . |
| 5 | AN UNUSUAL performance by traditional Hindu dancers and an opera singer sets out to illuminate the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan , the Indian mathematical genius , to the accompaniment of string and percussion . |
| 6 | This paper sets out to examine the factors behind foreign portfolio investment in the United Kingdom since the mid-1970s . |
| 7 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 8 | The poem sets out to justify the ways of God to men , and what little time is left me will be devoted to justifying the ways of god to men , and we must begin this , sorry we must begin this by a word on on the fall — the way of God the ways of God to men of course are punishing men for the fall . |
| 9 | This project sets out to explore the occupational structure which exists for women in Britain today . |
| 10 | Final outcomes Every project sets out to enhance the quality of life for the people that they were going to provide services for . |
| 11 | A Study Skills Handbook sets out to train the students in all these areas and does so in an authoritative no-nonsense manner ( making frequent use of Golden Rules ) and through a wealth of practical exercises . |
| 12 | Psychology sets out to fill the gaps left by these approaches , and in particular , to be ‘ a science which explains , vis-à-vis physics , why it is that the mind is by nature constrained initially to mislead reason in its dealings with reality ’ ( Canguilhem 1980 : 41 ) . |