Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |