Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv] [to-vb] " 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 | Throughout the entire work , the accompaniment only picks up absolutely precisely on three occasions , and by the end I was all set metaphorically to murder the conductor ! |
| 3 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 4 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 5 | ‘ It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need and not what they want — but few know what they want , and very few what they need , ’ Reith had pronounced . |
| 6 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 7 | We eagerly set out to find our dream home but , after much searching , eventually we decided that there was no way we could leave our quiet countryside house with its beautiful views . |
| 8 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 9 | This is the limit of MPTN 's ambitions ; it specifically does not set out to enable dissimilar applications to communicate . |
| 10 | The Alexander Technique does not set out to cure specific symptoms , but it does help to uncover and change those harmful and unconscious habit patterns which , all too often , are the underlying cause of a problem . |
| 11 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 12 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 13 | Technologists might , but they did not set out to do so . |
| 14 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 15 | Although the film is full of comments on the remaining cultural differences between east and west , it does not set out to make fun of the east Germans . |
| 16 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not set out to make a fool of you . |
| 18 | In the Discourse of the Common Weal Smith ( to whom it is now attributed ) did not set out to delineate the structure of society , but rather to present and analyse the responses of the four main economic interests in the community to the crisis of the late 1540s . |
| 19 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 20 | What the model does not set out to capture , but which is clearly most important , is the small group interdependence of oligopolistic competition . |
| 21 | ‘ I just set out to bowl it straight and make sure the batsman had to play at it . |
| 22 | Do n't worry , stay calm and just set out to enjoy the experience . |
| 23 | Dialectical Theology thus set out to reverse the approach , and in particular to emphasise , first , the ‘ Godness of God ’ ; second , the reality of the Word of God in Jesus Christ ; third , the impossibility of building theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 24 | A spokesman for Land Travel said the company had not set out to mislead the public but when the non-smoking trip did not attract a full complement of passengers it ‘ consolidated ’ it with a smoking holiday . |
| 25 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 26 | Seth had not set out to break word-count records . |
| 27 | On the other hand , there is a strong case to be made that Aquinas is not setting out to provide proofs of God 's existence . |
| 28 | They were not setting out to trade in gramophone records . |
| 29 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 30 | I did n't deliberately set out to become an insomniac , but such an attitude fits into the general anorexic pattern , and should be seen as a part of it . |