Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [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 | MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 8 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 9 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 10 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |