Example sentences of "[pron] set out [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 2 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 3 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 4 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |
| 5 | Even so , the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco , almost to the point of beatification , could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds . |
| 6 | It intervened to regulate trade ; in 1651 the republican Parliament passed a Navigation Act which set out to protect the English shipping trade by laying down that imports could be taken to the ports of England or of English colonies only by English ships or by those of the country that produced the goods . |
| 7 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 8 | The RFU are seizing the initiative with their Fifteen Days of England Rugby campaign between September 5th and 19th , which sets out to market the game among young players and their parents everywhere . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you set out to hurt the children in any way ? ’ |
| 10 | She set out to play the world circuit completely on her own , as she had no financial resources and no sponsorship . |
| 11 | Just as bad was the passage of the retinue of Rigunth , as she set out to marry the Visigothic prince Reccared in 584 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 15 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 16 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 17 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 18 | Whether our interest is practical or theoretical , whether we set out to provide the ‘ correct ’ treatment for children of various ages or whether we wish to understand the processes underlying their behaviour , we must describe and experiment systematically and objectively in order to arrive at worthwhile conclusions . |
| 19 | So we set out to find the truth behind the mystery — and discovered a woman who forged a dazzling career with precision and determination . |
| 20 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 21 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 22 | From this perspective , we set out to discover the plot of the social drama which the members of a particular community are in effect engaged in presenting , the parts or ‘ roles ’ that its members assume , and their mutual interaction as the play proceeds . |
| 23 | A year in Florence and the poetry of Dante have inspired him to set out to understand the influences in his life and work . |
| 24 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 25 | They set out to create the conditions where two hydrogen nuclei ( ‘ protons ’ ) could get close to each other , collide and join to make a nucleus of helium . |
| 26 | They set out to discover the names and fiefs of all lords and knights resident within the county , their liege lords , and the services each owed to the count . |
| 27 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 28 | After these experiences they set out to rebuild the prison system , from the perspective of prisoners turned gaolers . |
| 29 | The news of the school uplift reached the two shopping in Kirkwall before they set out to travel the twenty miles or so back home . |
| 30 | They bought the scrap Herald for just £25 and salvaged the chassis , engine , gearbox and axles. then , using plans bought from a man in Sheffield , they set out to build the bodywork from plywood and aluminium . |