Example sentences of "set out [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
2 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke in particular set out to magnify the Soviet shortcomings . |
3 | From all this sprang the paradox that orders like the Cistercian — which had set out to revive the old tradition that many monasteries should be away from the world , set apart , oases in the desert — encouraged journeying and laid on their leaders the obligation to travel often and far . |
4 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
5 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |