Example sentences of "set out [verb] the " 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 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 3 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 4 | They did n't set out to kill the children . |
| 5 | The accreditation test , which should be available by April 1994 , will set out to assess the representatives ' practical skills , their belief in the primacy of their professional duty to their clients and their knowledge of law and procedure . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you set out to hurt the children in any way ? ’ |
| 7 | In the Discourse of the Common Weal Smith ( to whom it is now attributed ) did not set out to delineate the structure of society , but rather to present and analyse the responses of the four main economic interests in the community to the crisis of the late 1540s . |
| 8 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 9 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 10 | We must therefore set out to discover the sources of our common knowledge of stiffness and to define strain , stress and their relation . |
| 11 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 12 | The intention was that we should set out to count the big sales first . |