Example sentences of "set [adv prt] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 2 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 3 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 4 | This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke . |
| 5 | Objective : ‘ Courtaulds set out to be the best of its kind at what it does . |