Example sentences of "set out [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 2 | Publicity shy Anne , who tried to keep details of her wedding secret , set out with black gloves to hide the sparkler . |
| 3 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 4 | These College regulations , based closely on those in the French veterinary schools , although reduced in number and somewhat ameliorated , set out for resident pupils a pretty strictly regimented way of life , against which they occasionally rebelled . |
| 5 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 6 | This view was echoed by a BBC director general , Alasdair Milne , who remarked that the prescriptions for broadcasting set out in previous eras — even only a matter of a decade or so ago — were of little value in a rapidly changing social and political environment . |
| 7 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 8 | His religion did not prove a handicap , although his scrupulous conscience never made life easy for him , and his philosophy of broadcasting , set out in neat lectures , was very different from that of Greene , or of Baron Hill of Luton , his first chairman . |
| 9 | The Regulations themselves set out only the main performance criteria with the technical detail set out in supporting documents . |