Example sentences of "sets [pn reflx] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 2 | He sets himself up as the Father of the British Industry yet he does n't deliver the goods . |
| 3 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 4 | We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God ’ ( 2 Corinthians 10:4–5 ) . |
| 5 | For Bürger ( 1984 , p. 48 ) it is specifically ‘ bourgeois art ’ that sets itself up as an autonomous realm . |
| 6 | It is only from the eighteenth century that ‘ bourgeois art ’ sets itself up as a realm separate from the social with its own specific ‘ institutional ’ apparatus of production , distribution , and reception of aesthetic forms . |