Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 2 | When she returned , they rearranged themselves more decorously on rocks and set themselves to recover the mood that had been lost . |
| 3 | In that work Tolkien had set himself to write a romance for an audience brought up on novels . |
| 4 | He then takes this brief to heart , and sets himself to provide an analysis of the state that avoids a formidable list of errors . |
| 5 | Her spite is aroused by the Gattletons ' ostentatious amateur theatricals , and she successfully sets herself to sabotage the proceedings ; her daughter Emma . |
| 6 | He set himself to heal the rifts in the party , and apparently succeeded , not only because Labour politicians are hungry for office but also because of his position of centrality , born and bred in the Labour movement . |
| 7 | Jesus believed it statements , endorsed its teaching , obeyed its commands , and set himself to fulfil the pattern of redemption which it laid down . |
| 8 | He set himself to become the best shot and swordsman in the regiment with a single-minded determination which aroused , not the respect he had anticipated , but derision . |
| 9 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 10 | The movement could be said to have started in Scotland in 1972 , when the Headteachers ' Association set themselves to determine the range of items of information needed to produce a comprehensive picture of the aptitudes and interests of all pupils , offering them a common form of statement , which would be generally comprehensible and would be available to them when appropriate . |