Example sentences of "set out " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 2 | Hardy bog plants propagated earlier can be set out in their permanent positions at the poolside . |
| 3 | These aims have gained a high symbolic place in the public imagination and the institution has set out to prevent and detect acts which are usually subsumed under a generic ( but simplistic ) classification of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 4 | And even if an uncommissioned but critical ethnography is not considered to be in breach of the Official Secrets Act , it will most likely be construed as structural espionage and lie in breach of the Police Discipline Code as set out in Police Regulations . |
| 5 | The derogatory phrase ‘ he 's not a real polis ; he 'll never be a polis as long as he 's got a hole in his arse ’ quickly set out markers to define who was one of us and who was not . |
| 6 | Such relative positions were clearly set out for me in chains of metaphoric relevance , with ‘ real polises ’ largely symbolized by the use of the body and its social and physical space . |
| 7 | This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above . |
| 8 | The park behind the school is fell of homelsss people who have set out their blankets and mattresses near the statue of Peter Cooper . |
| 9 | The known facts about Shakers are carefully set out by June Sprigg and I do not believe her work is a romantic history . |
| 10 | It is particularly appropriate in the case of a ballet that tells a story where the libretto has to be set out in such a way that the action can be logically developed and each item roughly timed . |
| 11 | The only exception to this method is when you are laying quarry tiles in mortar ; then , having set out the tiles dry , you start laying in one corner of the room , using battens as guides , and work across the room in bays four or five tiles wide . |
| 12 | Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by … |
| 13 | However , Peter Firstbrook 's series , lucidly scripted and fronted by Edward Behr , makes no secret of having set out to make one kind of series ( Wither China ? ) and then being armlocked by events in to another ( Withered China ? ) |
| 14 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 15 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 16 | The four , in their thirties and forties , had set out on board the 43ft Rose Noelle on 1 June for a three-week voyage to Tonga , but were reported overdue on 24 June . |
| 17 | The Union 's case will be set out by their senior life member , Ken Harris , who said this week he will relinquish his post as a trustee . |
| 18 | Richardson , he added , had ‘ set out to gratify himself casually ’ . |
| 19 | I do not recognise in your description of an employer ‘ frivolously testing his rights to its limits ’ the port employers or British Rail , which both this summer deliberately set out to overturn a majority strike ballot by manipulating the legal process . |
| 20 | History is set out in apparently discouraging detail . |
| 21 | For a manufacturing company , alternative product/market strategies are set out in the tables below . |
| 22 | The Germans placed this box usually in the gaps in hedges and the approaches to farm buildings , and the rest of a wide area they covered with ingenious booby-traps and other very strange devices , many of these being set off by wandering cattle and horses , as usually happened when the Commando mines and booby-traps were set out in the hedgerows and orchards in front of our positions . |
| 23 | In effect , for the first time since 1922 , the direct interest of the Dublin government in the internal affairs of Northern Ireland was explicitly set out . |
| 24 | The corporate communiqué can be set out on anything from regulation A4 paper with a staple in the corner , to grandiose box presentations containing ‘ sampler ’ cassettes or compact discs previewing the alleged highlights of a forthcoming release . |
| 25 | The right to carry out a royalty examination of a record or publishing company should be set out in the recording or publishing contract . |
| 26 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 27 | Gathering the soldiers around him , the Commanding Officer explained what he had set out to achieve two weeks ago . |
| 28 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 29 | The Government 's formal negotiating stance on pay was set out by Mr Clarke , who said there was no question of increasing the general 6.5 per cent offer . |
| 30 | The Government 's formal negotiating stance on pay was set out by Mr Clarke , who said there was no question of increasing the general 6.5 per cent offer . |