Example sentences of "sets [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although IBM , Apple and Motorola have a forged an agreement for the duration of their project , there remain obvious legal implications for a vendor who might want to stick say Sun Sparc and MIPS RISC instruction sets on to a single piece of silicon . |
| 2 | A few million dollars were kept abroad to provide for the family 's regular needs from videos and colour television sets through to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's preferred Gillette razors . |
| 3 | Indeed , institutional ideology sets out to ‘ strait-jacket minds and bodies and overcome individual thought ’ ( Foucault 1970 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Certainly no one sets out to be patronising . |
| 5 | ‘ Certainly no one sets out to be patronising . |
| 6 | He needs this , particularly if he sets out to be a novelist . |
| 7 | If a professional binder is employed , make very sure that he is what he sets out to be and has all the qualities of sensitive craftsmanship the work demands . |
| 8 | IT SETS out to be a film depicting immense human courage amid the horrific squalor of life in Calcutta 's slums . |
| 9 | This book intentionally sets out to be a companion to art history by cataloguing movements and critics rather than artists , who are included if they have written on art . |
| 10 | He then sets out to scourge the thronging temples of moneychangers and idolators . |
| 11 | This latter proposal specifically sets out to be a piece of social legislation , being concerned with information provision to , and consultation with , the workforce in large companies , especially multinational companies . |
| 12 | Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church . |
| 13 | It clearly sets out to branches delivery goals that depots intend to achieve and it sets out how , in return , the branches can aid the delivery process . |