Example sentences of "[adj] set [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sets out to describe the client 's position within the marketplace : brand shares and trends in brand share ; product advantages and disadvantages over competition — both in physical terms ( laboratory test and blind consumer test ) and in terms of consumer opinions and attitudes ; planned and possible product improvements ; recent marketing activity , in relation to that of competitors . |
| 2 | This sets out to offer the full range of Fluka products alongside those of Sigma and Aldrich , but at a scale and price more appropriate to the needs of pilot or development plant , clinical trial or production level , while maintaining the very high levels of quality and service for which all three companies are renowned . |
| 3 | For the second time the French set out to catch the English . |
| 4 | Their Housing Finance Act of 1972 set out to adapt the ‘ fair-rent ’ principle , which Labour had applied to private rents in the 1960s , to the local authority sector . |
| 5 | A system of self-regulatory organisations ( SROs ) was set up under the auspices of the DTI and the Securities and Investments Board , the latter set up to authorise the SROs and oversee their operations . |
| 6 | Acheson himself in the early months of 1950 set out to imbue the British and other members of Nato with a greater sense of urgency . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh Christ , oh Christ , ’ I mouthed in a panic and first set about getting the sticking plaster off him . |
| 8 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke in particular set out to magnify the Soviet shortcomings . |
| 9 | Making comparisons between two sets also enables the child to establish a relationship between them , and is one step towards the later understanding of the relationship ‘ is greater than ’ or ‘ is less than ’ between two numbers . |
| 10 | One of the two sets consistently overlaid the other , and it was distinctive , in that one of the tyres did not match the other three . |
| 11 | Both self-employed , and having the required skills , the two set about raising the £150 they would each need to pay for the journey as well as the tools and materials they would need . |
| 12 | Like many young American composers he studied with Nadia Boulanger , but after 1925 set out to achieve the ‘ discipline of spontaneity ’ which he found in Stein 's writings . |
| 13 | The Firearms Act 1968 sets out to control the possession of firearms and ammunition , and contains several offences . |
| 14 | Odd , though , that they had once seemed so odd , so isolated , for the school at which Dotty Doddridge vainly endeavoured to teach French had been non-conformist , faintly progressive , certainly egalitarian in its religious and social complexion : it had offered a liberal , secularized , healthy coeducation , and had on its foundation in the 1860s set out to attract the children of vegetarians , Quakers , freethinkers , pacifists , Unitarians , reformers . |