Example sentences of "[vb base] set [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , Jay , you 've set yourself a wonderful conundrum . |
| 2 | Not so much there , little bit better there , but that bit so , okay , it 's er , you 've set yourself a task to do a sort of a lighting exercise to photograph this camera er so , yo you you know , you must really control the lights and the do the best you can . |
| 3 | That we 're reviewing what progress I 've made in the targets that I 've set myself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Among the 800 hardened athletes in St Clements yesterday were four students from Buckingham University … they 've set themselves the goal of running the New York Marathon to raise money for charity … this was to be their first serious test . |
| 6 | Curran reveals : ‘ We 've set ourselves a target of four clean sheets for the last four matches — if we can achieve that we 're certain of at least four points . ’ |
| 7 | No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case . |
| 8 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 9 | Sixty years ago C. J. Herrick , the American comparative anatomist , dubbed it the ‘ organ of civilisation ’ , and I have set myself the task of seeing how far our scientific knowledge of nerve cells might earn the neocortex this grandiose title : Would these nerve cells , as actors , be able to perform the play , ‘ Civilisation ’ ? |
| 10 | ‘ I have set myself a target of winning every domestic honour . |
| 11 | Barring coups , the four Southern Cone presidents will all still be in office in 1994 , and have set themselves a target that is also a spur . |
| 12 | The pair , who are entered in the two-man kayak race , have set themselves a time of 28 hours and should arrive at Westminster at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday . |
| 13 | Many others have set themselves up as private tutors , which is now permitted . |
| 14 | Possibly because BIS confines itself to activity in the academic , college and research libraries ( where most library instruction takes place ) , and the various committees have set themselves more specific tasks , BIS seems to be a more successful co-operative and co-ordinating agency than LIRT . |
| 15 | Five things to achieve may well seem a lot , but for encouragement read on to see what objectives other women have set themselves . |
| 16 | WINDMILL Aviation at Spanhoe Lodge , Northants , have completed another Tiger Moth restoration , to the high standard proprietor Carl Tyers and his team have set themselves . |
| 17 | They have set themselves hugely ambitious targets . |
| 18 | These multi-agency teams have set themselves the task of identifying new cases , providing assessment by a member of the team and recommending suitable services . |
| 19 | Bournemouth pest controllers have set themselves a target of only hiring out D6 EFK 's in groups of eight . |
| 20 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 21 | Although nearly all the industrialised nations have set themselves targets for stabilising or reducing carbon dioxide emissions , the US , by far the biggest emitter , has consistently refused . |
| 22 | MIDDLESBROUGH have set themselves a target of remaining unbeaten to the end of the season to clinch a place in the Premier League . |
| 23 | When you know you only have half an hour or so you can become quite absorbed and interested , and quite jealous of the limit you have set yourself . |
| 24 | It is far better to recognize that external circumstances have changed , or simply that one made a mistaken series of assumptions about one 's own relative strengths , rather than to plough on in a situation where plainly the goal you have set yourself is unattainable . |
| 25 | The choice of covering in fact , very much depends on the sort of style you have set yourself . |
| 26 | We have set ourselves four education targets . |
| 27 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 28 | ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke . |
| 29 | And we have set ourselves — within the European Exchange Rate Mechanism — the right framework for success in the 1990s . |
| 30 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |