Example sentences of "set out [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year in Florence and the poetry of Dante have inspired him to set out to understand the influences in his life and work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 5 | They did n't set out to kill the children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Did you set out to hurt the children in any way ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 10 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 11 | We must therefore set out to discover the sources of our common knowledge of stiffness and to define strain , stress and their relation . |
| 12 | He may deliberately set out to corner the market , but do so by buying at legitimate market prices . |
| 13 | The intention was that we should set out to count the big sales first . |
| 14 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 15 | BOTH Yeovil and Altrincham have dispatched League opposition 15 times but TODAY set out to settle the argument as to which non-League outfit 's record was , in fact , the more impressive . |
| 16 | The three new studies set out to examine the problem in more detail . |
| 17 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 18 | Even so , the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco , almost to the point of beatification , could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds . |
| 19 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 20 | Thousands of years ago , when the first sailors set out to explore the world , there were no such things as maps and compasses . |
| 21 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 22 | They set out to create the conditions where two hydrogen nuclei ( ‘ protons ’ ) could get close to each other , collide and join to make a nucleus of helium . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Functional courses set out to list the purposes for which students might wish to use language , and then to teach them how to do so . |
| 26 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 27 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 28 | In March 1306 , Robert Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone , so King Edward I again set out to meet the challenge but on the sands of the Solway , he died aged 68 , on 7th . |
| 29 | Whether our interest is practical or theoretical , whether we set out to provide the ‘ correct ’ treatment for children of various ages or whether we wish to understand the processes underlying their behaviour , we must describe and experiment systematically and objectively in order to arrive at worthwhile conclusions . |
| 30 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |