Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] set out [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? " |
| 2 | Functional courses set out to list the purposes for which students might wish to use language , and then to teach them how to do so . |
| 3 | Baghdad , as in the bunker incident at Ameriyah , came in for rough treatment when Allied airpower set out to paralyse the Iraqi nerve centre in January 1991 . |
| 4 | Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon . |
| 5 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 6 | He or she may choose to travel with friends , but the true traveller sets out to make an independent , unhurried journey to the unknown , without supervision , avoiding tourist shrines and travelling where few foreign feet tread . |