Example sentences of "[Wh pn] set [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 2 | On reflection , however , this may not be quite true , since anyone who sets out to plant a wildlife garden instinctively takes a much keener interest in , and is influenced by , natural plant associations and communities . |
| 3 | Everyone who sets out to attack a pensioner should know that if he is caught , he will go to prison for a long time . |
| 4 | Charming at first sight is this picture of the warm-blooded sailor who sets out to win a girl because he has been told he is beneath her . |
| 5 | Any insider who sets out to pursue a reflexive anthropology of policing eventually has to face difficulties which arise when he reaches an objective and analytic understanding of his society and its own specific versions of reality . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1986 , Babrak was replaced by Najibullah , until then head of the secret police , who set out to implement a policy of ‘ national reconciliation ’ , hoping to unite the PDPA , renamed the Homeland Party , with some sections of the opposition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 12 | The wealth of Sir Herbert Leon , who had bought the Bletchley estate in 1883 and who set about transforming the house , was trumpeted loudly in the griffin statues on either side of the main entrance , in the exterior ‘ refinements ’ , in the florid plasterwork of friezes and ceilings , and in the opulent oak panelling and heavily elaborate carved details of the interior . |
| 13 | On their return to Holland they were contacted by Ivo at 4AD , who set about organising the Guernica debut . |
| 14 | On the grandfather 's death , the farm was taken over by a bachelor son who set about founding a Clydesdale stud . |
| 15 | But perhaps the biggest thing in popular music took place in 1948 when the LP was introduced ; an innovation of immense importance for the industry and public alike , and not least for Leonard who set about acquiring an enviable collection . |