Example sentences of "set out [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Rémy set out to explore the situation , and laid himself out to please , and his gifts and graces , when he tried , were considerable . |
| 2 | The analogy with the Falklands crisis and the Falklands ‘ spirit ’ looks all too obvious now : true blue , white British boys , determined to win back the ‘ burglar 's spoils ’ , set out to defend the bridgehead deep inside ‘ enemy territory ’ . |
| 3 | Haavio-Mannila set out to test the assumption that wives share the same status ranking as their husbands . |
| 4 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 5 | President Eisenhower set out to heal the divisions in the nation . |
| 6 | In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike . |
| 7 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hume 's Treatise set out to lay the foundations for ‘ a complete system of the sciences ’ relying ultimately only on ‘ experience and observation ’ — an ambition which empiricists all share . |
| 10 | Their Housing Finance Act of 1972 set out to adapt the ‘ fair-rent ’ principle , which Labour had applied to private rents in the 1960s , to the local authority sector . |
| 11 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 12 | In the remainder of this chapter I will explore some of the ambiguities and problems which face those who set out to research the police and assess some of the fears of the academic incursion into police society . |
| 13 | Now , with the massive harvests of the 1980s , when the superabundant corn bows its head along the banks of our chastened , canalized rivers , many of those who set out to tame the flood have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams . |
| 14 | The 1947 Act set out to remedy the deficiencies . |
| 15 | At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before . |
| 16 | The series of British Crime Surveys ( Hough and Mayhew 1983 , 1985 ) set out to describe the extent of crime in Britain . |
| 17 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |
| 18 | A series of dots sits in the middle of the screen , set out to give the impression that they 're painted onto an invisible ball — the dots ‘ nearest ’ to you are thus larger than the ones on the back of the ‘ sphere ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Their model set out to predict the mean dividend yield . |
| 21 | The capital logic school of neo-Marxist theories ( sometimes also called the ‘ state derivation ’ approach ) set out to deduce the functional necessity of the state from analysis of the capitalist mode of production ( Altvater , 1973 ; Holloway and Picciotto , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Clutching his head , Umberto set out to rouse the other grooms . |
| 23 | SAVE 's report , Preservation Pays , set out to document the very substantial economic benefits that accrued through tourism , both to commerce and to the exchequer . |
| 24 | The Mikulić government , which took office in May 1986 , was clearly influenced by such attitudes when it set out to curb the rapidly rising inflation of that year by it policy of ‘ programmed inflation ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Gorbachev set out to correlate the CPSU 's policy of " humane and democratic socialism " with Marxism . |
| 27 | Sue Telfer , adviser to the neighbourhood schemes , told those present at the Kingsley Centre on Thursday evening that community care set out to meet the needs of an area which were not already being covered by other organisations . |
| 28 | He despatched the Hurricanes in three flights , each led by a Fulmar , while from Malta three Marylands and a Sunderland set out to meet the incoming formation and lead them in . |
| 29 | For the second time the French set out to catch the English . |
| 30 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |