Example sentences of "set out [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 2 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 3 | The intention was that we should set out to count the big sales first . |
| 4 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 5 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |
| 6 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 7 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 8 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 9 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 10 | The news of the school uplift reached the two shopping in Kirkwall before they set out to travel the twenty miles or so back home . |
| 11 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 12 | It intervened to regulate trade ; in 1651 the republican Parliament passed a Navigation Act which set out to protect the English shipping trade by laying down that imports could be taken to the ports of England or of English colonies only by English ships or by those of the country that produced the goods . |
| 13 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 14 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke in particular set out to magnify the Soviet shortcomings . |
| 15 | From all this sprang the paradox that orders like the Cistercian — which had set out to revive the old tradition that many monasteries should be away from the world , set apart , oases in the desert — encouraged journeying and laid on their leaders the obligation to travel often and far . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This project sets out to explore the occupational structure which exists for women in Britain today . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Bailey 's chapter ( 4.2 ) ‘ The Challenge of Economic Utility ’ , which comes from his book Challenges of Liberal Education ( 1984 ) sets out to distinguish the liberal goals of understanding from the goals , which he describes as both indoctrinatory and utilitarian , of ‘ respect for industrial and commercial activity ’ , a view based on the goal of ‘ helping children properly to appreciate how the nation earns and maintains its standard of living and properly ( esteeming ) the essential role of industry and commerce in this process ’ . |
| 21 | But you will not find any record that sets out to tell the chronological story to you . |
| 22 | It sets out to cover the normal stages of language development between the ages of 1 and 5 years , although it is intended principally as a clinical tool for children with delayed and deviant language . |
| 23 | Cautiously setting out to explore the many winding canyons debouching from their landing point , a host of nightmarish apparitions greet their progress . |
| 24 | On Saturday morning I was in such a hurry that I only said a quick goodbye to my family , before setting out to walk the few miles into town for the London coach . |
| 25 | Having sewn up the Cobol development business in the IBM mainframe world , Micro Focus Plc is setting out to pull the same trick in the Unix world and is offering what it describes as a complex Unix application development environment optimised for client-server applications . |
| 26 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 27 | In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before . |
| 30 | Their model set out to predict the mean dividend yield . |