Example sentences of "set out on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I think it will a long way , but you 're quite to draw it to us , and to ask us to set out on that road .
2 After only four months at home , Leopold decided to set out on another , longer tour , this time to Paris and London .
3 And if he had to set out on this nonsensical journey to the Fire Court with the Humans , it would be as well to just stock up a bit for his return .
4 Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed .
5 Appendices , which set out on separate numbered pages any detailed material , unsuitable for inclusion in the body of your report .
6 As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along .
7 But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all .
8 They set out on 8 April , stopping first at Prague .
9 They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way .
10 I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved .
11 The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table .
12 In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light .
13 The exhibition is set out on three floors , each concerned with a different aspect of Viking culture .
14 WATERLOO BOY sets out on another chasing campaign tomorrow at Exeter with expectations high of a season full of more success .
15 He found himself stymied by an old oppo of mine when setting out on one of the Bielefeld Viaduct sorties with Tallboys .
16 It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd .
17 With Italian and German bombers providing air cover , the convoy set out on 5 August , carrying some 3,000 men .
18 Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing .
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