Example sentences of "[noun] sets out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of Haran , Terah sets out for Canaan , with his grandson Lot and his son Abram and childless daughter-in-law Sarai . |
| 2 | LET'S GO surfing now — John Milius ’ most successful movie sets out on the ocean wave of West Coast surfing culture following the metamorphosis of three macho beach bums during the '60s decade of lost innocence , alcoholism , the draft and the mythic rites played out on the ocean wave . |
| 3 | WATERLOO BOY sets out on another chasing campaign tomorrow at Exeter with expectations high of a season full of more success . |
| 4 | The proposal sets out in detail how profits made , but not realised , by American customers of British brokers dealing in this country can be guaranteed against the broker 's financial failure . |
| 5 | The judge sets out in his judgment the Home Office Guidance to Chief Officers on Police Complaints and Discipline Procedures , 1985 edition as follows : |
| 6 | Katie sets out on the trail of the kidnappers and her song for Ben becomes the means to save his life . |
| 7 | The alternative approach of the evaluative typology that Barthes sets out in S/Z privileges the writing of the text , and sees it not as a structure or as a copy of a structure ( poetics ) , but as a practice . |
| 8 | ISS sets out in great detail ( paragraphs 3.9.3 to 3.9.16 ) both arguments . |
| 9 | COUNTRY star Daniel O'Donnell sets out on a 46-date UK tour next week … after fears that he might never perform again . |
| 10 | Those are the policies that the right hon. Gentleman sets out before this nation . |
| 11 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
| 12 | This new leaflet sets out in clear and simple terms who to approach for what kind of information and advice . |
| 13 | Before a bushbaby sets out into the African night , it performs a strange ritual : it cups its hands and then urinates on them . |
| 14 | The army sets out on its way to France , and Roland is duly posted to lead the rear , together with the flower of Charlemagne 's feudatories , the twelve peers of France . |
| 15 | Even such things as the maximum angle of bank in certain configurations are specified , so once a pilot sets out on a particular flight his actions , or at least the manner in which he should fly the aeroplane , are known in precise detail . |
| 16 | Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church . |
| 17 | As a male sets out along a branch , he leans over sideways , lifts one of his back legs and carefully expels a few drops of urine on to the sole of his foot . |
| 18 | The text sets out from the premiss that the beneficiary of the trust ought to obtain the actual land ( rather than its value ) ; the question therefore is who ought to pay off the creditor to whom the land is presently pledged . |
| 19 | Indeed , institutional ideology sets out to ‘ strait-jacket minds and bodies and overcome individual thought ’ ( Foucault 1970 ) . |
| 20 | This document sets out for the first time an integrated policy and management system , with the emphasis on continuous improvement . |
| 21 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 22 | And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him . |
| 23 | The following morning , a raiding party sets out into the new territory . |