Example sentences of "set itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | India , for example , has set itself a target of providing 80 per cent sanitation in towns , 25 per cent in rural areas , and water for all . |
| 2 | Computer based , critical path planning ( CPP ) provides confidence that the organisation has carefully considered the requirements and has set itself realistic achievement targets . |
| 3 | An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months . |
| 4 | For example , the West Midlands Regional Health Service has set itself the target of achieving a minimum of 33% of women non-executive directors who will advise on and develop the Regional Health Authority 's policy . |
| 5 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 6 | I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife . |
| 7 | The major target which the Commission has set itself is to bring about a situation where Protestant and Catholic levels of employment and unemployment are more nearly equal . |
| 8 | This report has therefore left until the end the question of the degree to which the ESSE/L Project has achieved the targets it has set itself , and has roamed widely across the experiences of those involved both directly and indirectly with the project . |
| 9 | Until Easter monthly meetings have been agreed , which reflects the commitment and enthusiasm of the members to the task which the Group has set itself . |
| 10 | Stoltenberg said on Oct. 25 that the study , to be conducted by the High Level Group ( HLG-set up by the NPG in 1979 to look at theatre nuclear weapons ) , would report possibly in 1991 ( ie before the 1992 deadline which NATO had set itself for a decision on short-range nuclear weapons ) , and could form the basis of a mandate for a short-range nuclear forces ( SNF ) treaty . |
| 11 | The passage of Resolution 678 was achieved before the deadline of Nov. 30 which the USA had set itself , and after which the chairmanship of the Security Council would pass by alphabetical rotation from the USA to Yemen for the month of December . |
| 12 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 13 | Hariri announced that his government had set itself objectives of " liberation , reform and development " . |
| 14 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |
| 15 | Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive . |
| 16 | Sweden has set itself the target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions at 1986 levels by the year 2010 . |
| 17 | Britain has just 8 megawatts of wind power capacity installed to date , compared with 35 MW in India , 250 MW in Denmark and 1,400 MW in California — which has set itself the target of meeting 10 per cent of energy needs through wind power by the year 2000 . |
| 18 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 19 | These states also complained that Germany was dumping waste in other EC states because of its own inability to deal with the high targets it has set itself under its own laws . |
| 20 | The RSPB campaign launched this week has set itself the ambitious target of trying to reverse the Common Agricultural Policy , or CAP , which encourages intensive farming . |
| 21 | But given that the RSPB has set itself the task of changing European farming policy to save the Barn Owl , it 's going to be a monumental task . |
| 22 | Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has set itself the task of completely renovating a 55-bed long stay hospital in Iasi for children suffering from hepatitis and diabetes . |
| 23 | The Marton Road secondary has set itself a target of £1,200 . |
| 24 | The university has set itself the objective of becoming an outstanding research and teaching university . |