Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 2 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 3 | The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments . |
| 4 | This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence . |
| 5 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |