Example sentences of "set out [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 2 | In what is regarded as a make-or-break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . |
| 3 | But I do n't set out to impose a cathartic experience on my readers . |
| 4 | MERSEYSIDE Olympic hero Chris Boardman today set out to spearhead a new drive for better health in the region . |
| 5 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 6 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 7 | Over the next 13 years , the regulations set out to achieve a 70 per cent cut in hydrocarbon emissions . |
| 8 | ‘ The facts you have set out make a sorry tale indeed . ’ |
| 9 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 10 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 11 | Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon . |
| 12 | Clearly any break is a disadvantage in a section that sets out to typify a whole division of geological time , but here it is worse , for one of those breaks is now thought ( at least by one eminent British palaeontologist ) to conceal the whole of the British Portlandian . |
| 13 | The test sets out to assess a wide range of grammatical understanding , including grammatical categories such as noun , verb and adjective ; negatives ; singular and plural personal pronouns ; reversible active verbs ; personal pronouns ; singular and plural noun inflections ; comparative adjectives ; reversible passive sentences ; ‘ in'/ ‘ on ’ ; post-modified subjects ; ‘ X but not Y ’ constructions ; ‘ above'/ ‘ below ’ ; ‘ not only but also ’ constructions ; the relative clause ; ‘ neither X nor Y ’ and embedded sentences . |
| 14 | Bale Out by Ian Wright sets out to present a general background of historical information on the parachute and its evolution . |
| 15 | They also made such one-off comedies as The Green Man ( 1957 ) , in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sets out to prevent a sour-faced captain of industry from being blown up . |
| 16 | Bigoted detective sergeant Robert Spallen sets out to bring a notorious IRA terrorist to book . |
| 17 | LAMBS for live export could pose the biggest problem for the Scottish sheep industry as it sets out to establish a European Community approved national identification scheme before the July 1994 deadline . |
| 18 | Slid his unsocked feet into a pair of canvas loafers and set out to test a certain hypothesis . |
| 19 | The Institute , now renamed the International Federation of Documentation , set out to design a standard international classification scheme primarily for documentation rather than for general library use . |
| 20 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 21 | At the end of the Second World War the US and UK set out to construct a new order for international trade and investment , a set of institutions and arrangements that became known as the Bretton Woods system . |
| 22 | SAVE 's report , The Scourge of Britain 's High Streets , set out to provide a visual record of the damage , canvas the views of those on the spot ( i.e. local planning officers and civic societies ) , and find examples of successful sensitive treatment . |
| 23 | But it was only in the 1950s that Greece set out to build a serious manufacturing sector — and immediately , unlike the Koreas and Spains of the world , found it was not capable of it . |
| 24 | Thomson , and a reformist journalist called Adolphe Smith , set out to produce a similar but better document on urban poverty , this time using photography for more accurate illustrations . |
| 25 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |