Example sentences of "the [noun pl] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way the patterns set in the boom left their imprint firmly on the years of mass unemployment which followed . |
| 2 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 3 | Attempts to solve the problem become more and more radical and the rules set by the paradigm for the solution of problems become progressively more loosened . |
| 4 | Managers can then exercise as much authority and carry as much responsibility as possible within the constraints of the policies set by the organisation and the commitments they have made to their own superior executive . |
| 5 | St Wolfgang is the most famous of the resorts set on the shores of Lake Wolfgang . |
| 6 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 7 | The weakest test of conformity with the no-arbitrage condition uses the bounds set by the transactions costs of arbitrage . |
| 8 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 9 | As will be discussed below , the treatment of detainees suspected of security offences is still open to serious questioning , but the operations of the penal system itself continue within the bounds set by the Statute of Rights . |
| 10 | It has thus politicised the problem of violence beyond the parameters set by the law and order debate . |
| 11 | The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family . |
| 12 | He surely recollects the precedents set in the steel and coal industries , in which the Community was involved in Europewide initiatives to limit the impact of the decline in demand for the products of the companies concerned . |
| 13 | In the square the flower-sellers had lit the naphtha flares in the buckets set along the cobblestones . |
| 14 | The targets set by the School Management Task Force are realistic as part of large-scale management , and the detailed approach of the SDPP is likely to be more immediately valuable to schools . |
| 15 | At the beginning of the annual costing exercises there is usually a significant gap between the targets set by the Treasury and the genuine requirements of the Services , which no amount of discounting can bridge . |
| 16 | The principles set by the schools on both sides of the Atlantic are effectively the same ; they are vocational training centres which make use of speed-learning techniques in a high-energy learning environment . |
| 17 | The city claims the levels set by the pueblo for one pollutant " arsenic " are 1,000 times lower than occur naturally . |
| 18 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 19 | She scanned the displays set round the visor on the inside of the helmet . |
| 20 | In Buxtehude for example , an attempt is made to calm the car across a broad area using a battery of devices , providing the driver with an unambiguous message that he or she is welcome , but on the terms set by the residents . |
| 21 | In an effort to meet the terms set by the World Bank in June 1989 for the granting of a US$150,000,000 structural adjustment loan , the government agreed to a number of measures aimed at restructuring the banking , state and agricultural sectors . |
| 22 | She is then able to cover the same ground , using the objectives set by the ward . |
| 23 | Biologists try to interpret the structures they see as performing some function , subject to the constraints set by the materials of which they are made , and the conditions under which they must operate . |
| 24 | Was a workable modus vivendi then possible between the rulers of England and France , even within the limits set by the peace of Paris ? |
| 25 | Many operatives also welcome the independence and freedom , within the limits set by the builder , to choose working hours and in certain circumstances to work unlimited overtime . |
| 26 | If fewer than ten suitable students are identified , there is a provision for substitute funding ; I think you suggested half the fees for places that are taken up , and that would certainly fit within the limits set by the Executive . |
| 27 | Since the structure of molecules and their reactions with each other underlie all of chemistry and biology , quantum mechanics allows us in principle to predict nearly everything we see around us , within the limits set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 28 | Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that , within the limits set by the uncertainty principle , tell us how the universe will develop with time , if we know its state at any one time . |
| 29 | Their calculations of reaction rates in the Sun 's interior imply that there must be at least 10 20 times as many monopoles in the Sun as is possible according to the limits set by the non-detection of monopoles here on Earth . |
| 30 | Against the timescales set by the government , that contracts for all services be in place by April 1991 , it proved a stern test of general management . |