Example sentences of "set themselves [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , they voluntarily set themselves a worldwide target of reducing air pollution by 90% at the end of 1992 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Task Force set themselves a tall order , comprised as they were of a wide range of largely voluntary community groups diverse experience of land-use issues and perceptions of the problems — spanning local issues to National land-related policies . |