Sentence examples for set out to commit from inspiring English sources

"Barça has not set out to commit any tax offence.

The FSA, in their public statement, acknowledged that Murat Özgül did not set out to commit market abuse".

He didn't set out to commit murder, but having killed one he had to kill the other.

"Rather, this is a case where the defendants deliberately set out to commit a violent crime against a man whom they intentionally selected because of his sexual orientation.

While the Financial Services Authority said Mr. Hannam did not set out to commit market abuse, the regulator said his failures were serious because of his experience and senior position at JPMorgan.

The point about Nicholson, Tomlin told me, was not that the librarian set out to commit a fraud but that he unconsciously, and sincerely, fantasized his interpretation of the ill-preserved scratches in the soft metal.

The ballet's hero, Pyotr, a rather goofy agriculture student, sets out to commit a little adultery and ends up wooing his own wife, Zina, by mistake.

My character is bored, I think: she loves her friend Magali and wants to find her a man but also likes the excitement of meeting someone, without the risk of setting out to commit adultery.

IT IS almost 40 years since Bangladesh's independence and a year since a war-crimes tribunal set out to try those accused of committing atrocities during the bloodstained conflict that led to it.

Mr. Flender, the director, who has known Mr. O'Brien since the two were undergraduates at Harvard in the 1980s, said in a telephone interview that he did not set out to create a puff piece or commit character assassination but simply wanted to depict Mr. O'Brien as he is.

Dressing like students and wearing hidden body cameras, they set out to "record any violent thugs as they commit felonies," Gilchrist told me.