Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] set [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will try to enjoy the whole weekend and with everyone 's help I have set myself a target to raise 1,000 for CLIC . |
| 2 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 3 | ‘ I have set myself a target of winning every domestic honour . |
| 4 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 5 | Sixty years ago C. J. Herrick , the American comparative anatomist , dubbed it the ‘ organ of civilisation ’ , and I have set myself the task of seeing how far our scientific knowledge of nerve cells might earn the neocortex this grandiose title : Would these nerve cells , as actors , be able to perform the play , ‘ Civilisation ’ ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |
| 9 | Whether you choose to set yourself the task of becoming an accomplished windsurfer within seven days or opt to learn the sport at a more leisurely pace , Windsurfing in a week will prove as invaluable a companion as your buoyancy aid . |
| 10 | So , Jay , you 've set yourself a wonderful conundrum . |
| 11 | Not so much there , little bit better there , but that bit so , okay , it 's er , you 've set yourself a task to do a sort of a lighting exercise to photograph this camera er so , yo you you know , you must really control the lights and the do the best you can . |
| 12 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 13 | Curran reveals : ‘ We 've set ourselves a target of four clean sheets for the last four matches — if we can achieve that we 're certain of at least four points . ’ |
| 14 | For the future , we have set ourselves a series of targets , spelled out below , which are designed to restore BP 's profitability and build a stronger balance sheet . |
| 15 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 16 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 17 | Rather than elevating the rights of the fetus to the exclusion of all the other factors , we have set ourselves the primary task of helping other women who face the dilemma of unwanted childbearing . |
| 18 | Derry 's unfancied squad , written off by a lot of football pundits , are so keen to prove their detractors wrong , that they 've set themselves a demanding series of targets for the remaining four matches . |
| 19 | Among the 800 hardened athletes in St Clements yesterday were four students from Buckingham University … they 've set themselves the goal of running the New York Marathon to raise money for charity … this was to be their first serious test . |
| 20 | They had set themselves a pace that could not survive 90 minutes and , sure enough , began to sag . |
| 21 | He has set himself the task of trying to discuss the agenda Labour needs to develop over the next two decades on issues such as training , education and poverty . |
| 22 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 23 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 24 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |