Example sentences of "set [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 2 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 3 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 4 | It is better still when parents set them the right example by not smoking themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 6 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 7 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 8 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 11 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |
| 15 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 16 | The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation . |
| 17 | We 're setting you the following task . |
| 18 | NORWICH are setting themselves the toughest of targets over the last nine games of the season as they bid to become champions . |
| 19 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 20 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 21 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 22 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |