Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 2 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 3 | This is obviously related to Foucault 's analysis of the genealogy of the disciplinary society , a society of surveillance and control , which he sets out in his book Discipline and Punish , and to his argument that power proceeds not in the traditional model of sovereignty ( that is negatively , ‘ thou shalt not ’ ) but through administering and fostering life ( that is positively , ‘ you must ’ ) . |
| 4 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 5 | We 've got what we set out for . |
| 6 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 7 | Whatever the outcome , the tendency to rationalize , ie for people to claim that they did achieve what they set out to , is high . |
| 8 | Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be : a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly . |
| 9 | If a professional binder is employed , make very sure that he is what he sets out to be and has all the qualities of sensitive craftsmanship the work demands . |