Example sentences of "[noun prp] set out [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev set out to correlate the CPSU 's policy of " humane and democratic socialism " with Marxism . |
| 2 | And yet the matter was quickly screened out as Pakistan set out to secure the piffling 138 needed for their second Test victory at Lord 's . |
| 3 | Canary set out to purchase the base airframes for the planned conversions and marginally flyable Texans and Vibrators were collected from across North America and ferried to the modification headquarters at Long Beach , California . |
| 4 | Haavio-Mannila set out to test the assumption that wives share the same status ranking as their husbands . |
| 5 | In an essay written with Watt in 1963 ( in Goody , ed. 1968 ) , Goody sets out to counter-balance the relativism of his colleagues in anthropology which , he feels , ‘ has now gone to the point of denying that the distinction between non-literate and literate societies has any significant validity ’ . |
| 6 | JOHN HIND and STEPHEN MOSCO set out to try the patience of Britain 's most caring MPs |
| 7 | So Rémy set out to explore the situation , and laid himself out to please , and his gifts and graces , when he tried , were considerable . |
| 8 | The need for a German theatre , as part of a wider literary and philosophical programme for Germany , arises at the point where Herder sets out to emphasize the Englishness of Shakespeare and the French character of the court of Louis XIV and its drama , and where he begins to point to the absence of a comparable phenomenon in the " Germany " — that is , the conglomeration of German principalities and duchies — of his own day . |
| 9 | President Eisenhower set out to heal the divisions in the nation . |
| 10 | MINI MARVEL Lyric Fantasy blitzed the big boys at York yesterday as Richard Hannon set out to win the trainer 's title in one hit . |
| 11 | This perception was heightened by the zeal with which some of the five CMHTs set out to protect the purity of their developmental work and their freedom from routine casework — and by the decision of all the CMHTs to begin their work by undertaking an exhaustive survey of all identifiable people with learning difficulties ( and carers ) to establish their needs and preferences . |
| 12 | Barbara Buhler Lynes 's essay , ‘ the Language of Criticism ’ , in this issue of WAM is a thought-provoking , informative article which examines the way Georgia O'Keeffe set out to persuade the critics to define her and her art on her own terms in the latter half of the 1920s . |