Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 2 | Whether we ought to set ourselves up as molders of it is another question . ’ |
| 3 | It means shaving away constantly at the sort of multiple objectives which we normally like to set ourselves , until one reaches an absolutely clear message of a mission and role . |
| 4 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 5 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 6 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 7 | During 1860–2 he had found his title and ideas for some of the leading incidents , including the story of a young man feigning death and living with an assumed identity , but was unable to set himself to the writing until the autumn of 1863 , when he determined not to begin publication until he had 5 numbers in hand , since he was now writing so slowly , with care and with difficulty . |
| 8 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 9 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 10 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 11 | A self-confessed con-artist and charlatan , he used his ‘ nimbleness of wit ’ to set himself up as a quack doctor and an exorcist . |
| 12 | ‘ In all my films , ’ said Winner , ‘ the underlying theme is the individual seeking to prove himself against the mass , to set himself above the environment . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 14 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 15 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 16 | To do this he has to set himself up as one of the scared people of the modern world , a textbook example of homo neuroticus . |
| 17 | The industry is split over whether to set itself a 20% or 35% ceiling on the percentage of assets that junk bonds can account for . |
| 18 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 19 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 20 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 21 | To satisfy that humble demand the GMC , pace its president , would not have to set itself up as ‘ an investigation bureau to assess the scientific validity of new treatments before allowing doctors to use them . ’ |
| 22 | The UK was prepared to set itself the " very demanding target " of stabilizing total UK emissions of CO2 at 1990 levels by 2005 as part of " a wide international effort , with a fair distribution of the burden " , and " provided others are ready to take their full share " . |
| 23 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
| 24 | The therapist suggested that possibly she tended to set herself standards that were too high and also underestimated her own ability . |
| 25 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 26 | She said she did n't mind Elizabeth being Queen at all , and had no doubt she was a very good one too , but that it was evil and presumptuous of her — the illegitimate daughter of an excommunicated heretic and a beheaded adulteress — to set herself up as defender of the Faith . |
| 27 | The alternative was to use her capital to set herself up in business . |
| 28 | Once out of sight of the house with its menaces and disappointments Nicandra ran down the drive , jogging and shaking to set herself free from what was not a baby . |
| 29 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 30 | In central Africa influential movements such as Jehovah 's Witnesses were attractive to those who sought to set themselves apart and to adopt a puritan lifestyle . |