Example sentences of "[conj] we set out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or we set out to take it there . |
| 2 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 3 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 4 | The decision of the day before yesterday related to any Yugoslav republics which fulfilled certain conditions that we set out . |
| 5 | We are steadily working towards the plans that we set out , which we believe are right . |
| 6 | The Select Committee has taken an interest and has recognised that we have fully funded the programme that we set out . |
| 7 | I will not go further than to say ’ around 40 ’ , but we certainly intend to implement the programme that we set out in ’ Options for Change ’ . |
| 8 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 9 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 10 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 11 | Pat had stressed its appeal in his manuscript so , on a snatched afternoon 's climbing , I met Don Sargeant and we set out to investigate . |
| 12 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 13 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 14 | Kim , 1971 ) If we set out to frame hypotheses about the chosen part of consciousness , we do so at our peril , flying in the dark . |
| 15 | If we set out to design something ( a business , a project , a product , a campaign , a job ) we need to keep our priorities clearly in mind at each step because alter a while the momentum of the design will take over and dictate what comes next . |
| 16 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 17 | Whether our interest is practical or theoretical , whether we set out to provide the ‘ correct ’ treatment for children of various ages or whether we wish to understand the processes underlying their behaviour , we must describe and experiment systematically and objectively in order to arrive at worthwhile conclusions . |
| 18 | I thought that since the recital is to start at 7.30 you might all like something a little substantial before we set out . |
| 19 | Before we set out , he showed us his letters of recommendation from delighted tourists . |
| 20 | provided , of course , I 'm furnished with a glass of good red mull before we set out . |
| 21 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll ask the coastguard and the police tomorrow before we set out . |
| 23 | We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 . |
| 24 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 25 | When we set out to know something , we do not proceed by proving everything we know before we know it . |
| 26 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 27 | When we set out to tell other people the truth by saying things , what we actually do is to say not what we believe , but what we believe we believe — which , as Freud and others have taught us , is n't always the same thing . |
| 28 | When we set out to do something new we often assume that the baseline will continue as it always has done . |
| 29 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 30 | As we set out I wonder if I can be allowed more miracles and how the rest of my family and fellow pilgrims will be affected . |