Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't set out to be a sculptor but discovered at college it was much more of a natural thing for me . |
| 2 | Two is set up to be a second clean channel , while three offers a ‘ crunch rhythm ’ facility and so an overdrive rotary joins the Lo and Hi EQ here . |
| 3 | It was impossible to speak to Mr Sloan , she said , and added that the Panel was never set up to be a court . |
| 4 | He needs this , particularly if he sets out to be a novelist . |
| 5 | IT SETS out to be a film depicting immense human courage amid the horrific squalor of life in Calcutta 's slums . |
| 6 | This book intentionally sets out to be a companion to art history by cataloguing movements and critics rather than artists , who are included if they have written on art . |
| 7 | This latter proposal specifically sets out to be a piece of social legislation , being concerned with information provision to , and consultation with , the workforce in large companies , especially multinational companies . |
| 8 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 9 | ‘ I never set out to be a role model for girls or women , ’ she said in a recent interview , ‘ and I do n't conform to any stereotype . |
| 10 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 11 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |