Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 2 | Apart from establishing common criteria for the licensing of airlines and routes , they set out to guarantee an EC-wide right of cabotage ( the carriage of one country 's freight or passenger traffic by an airline from another country ) , to phase out capacity quotas at airports , and to end the preferential access arrangements accorded by some countries to their own domestic airlines . |
| 3 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 4 | Three new Stock Exchange money brokers ( SEMBs ) joined the original six SEMBs to lend stocks and finance to GEMMs , and six inter-dealer brokers ( IDBs ) were set up to maintain an anonymous transactions service between GEMMs . |
| 5 | Following legal suits by citizens ' organizations , the EPA reluctantly set out to devise an alternative plan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The research , which acknowledges the profound effect on the student in changing to a different concept of learning , and the important effect of his previous full-time learning environment , sets out to develop an effective methodology for creating a research skills profile of the PhD student at the commencement of his course . |
| 8 | He or she may choose to travel with friends , but the true traveller sets out to make an independent , unhurried journey to the unknown , without supervision , avoiding tourist shrines and travelling where few foreign feet tread . |
| 9 | Frazer , through setting out to study an essential ritual of the primitive dead , had done what Eliot hoped modern literature , including Sweeney Agonistes would do . |
| 10 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |
| 11 | Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck . |
| 12 | 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 . |