Example sentences of "set out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 2 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 3 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 4 | I did n't set out to be a sculptor but discovered at college it was much more of a natural thing for me . |
| 5 | ‘ The magazine side of our publishing is perhaps the most flexible in design terms , ’ says Peter Brigg , ‘ but we do n't set out to be at the cutting edge of fancy design . |
| 6 | You see , this really , this this parable i is the story of of , of something which is lost almost by default , it just wanders off , it just goes it 's own way it did n't set out to be lost , it did n't choose you know that i , it did n't go through earlier on in that day , in the little brain that the sheep has , there was n't the thought going , I am going to deliberately get lost today ! |
| 7 | CHRISTOPHER Gable says he did not set out to deliberately shock . |