Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 2 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 3 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 4 | The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments . |
| 5 | Cautiously setting out to explore the many winding canyons debouching from their landing point , a host of nightmarish apparitions greet their progress . |
| 6 | This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence . |
| 7 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 8 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |