Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] [art] [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 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Set yourself a personal timetable for study . |
| 7 | Again another thing too , is that boosting your ego side , if you s if you set yourself a little bit of a target and you can manage it er can you run up the hill ? |
| 8 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 9 | In 1987 , they voluntarily set themselves a worldwide target of reducing air pollution by 90% at the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 12 | You can set yourself a maximum bid , having viewed the fish beforehand , and can congratulate yourself if you get it for less . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 15 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 16 | SMALL , West Ham 's forgotten striker , has set himself a New Year deadline to force his way back into Billy Bonds 's plans . |
| 17 | ALAN CORK , aiming for his 150th League goal this weekend , has set himself a new target — to join the 200 Club . |
| 18 | WITH the prospect of a five-year term , John Major has set himself a formidable agenda . |
| 19 | Stewart ( 31 ) will join the Glens this week and has set himself a three week target to be ready for first team action . |
| 20 | GARY SPEED has set himself a double task — to resurrect the fortunes of club and country . |
| 21 | SOCCER ace Gary Lineker has set himself a tough new goal — learning Japanese in just six months . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |
| 27 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 28 | So , Jay , you 've set yourself a wonderful conundrum . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |