Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative government has set out to achieve this by selling council houses and also by attempting to widen share ownership . |
| 2 | With 104 paintings by seventy artists Olsen has set out to show that nineteenth-century Italian painting , as in the preceding centuries , reflected the political events of the time . |
| 3 | 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 ? ) |
| 4 | You 'll have a later report er , from the social care enterprise agency , which we 've set up to stimulate independent domiciliary care . |
| 5 | The workshop then went on to examine whether the government had a credible community economic development policy and whether the various initiatives which it had set up represented such a strategy . |
| 6 | Gathering the soldiers around him , the Commanding Officer explained what he had set out to achieve two weeks ago . |
| 7 | But the revisionists have set about dismantling separate aspects of each of the traditional versions . |