Example sentences of "set [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And no fewer than five sets of relatives live in the street where the couple are now staying with Mrs Bulger 's mother . |
| 2 | This repeated the sets of priorities established in the original plans , i.e. to secure a diversified industrial base in order to create employment , and to achieve related ‘ secondary objectives ’ , namely , |
| 3 | Local strategies are , not surprisingly , unable to cope with major sets of problems generated outside the area . |
| 4 | It had attracted the interest of several composers before ( Corelli , Localelli , C.P.E. Bach and Salieri among them ) , but Rachmaninov 's ‘ foliations ’ leave the others standing : this is simply one of the finest sets of variations composed for the keyboard since Beethoven 's Diabellis . |
| 5 | Not infrequently , of course , the two attitudes or sets of circumstances exist in the same family . |
| 6 | It preserves a relative autonomy for cultural and ideological elements ( musical structures and song lyrics , for example ) but also insists that those combinatory patterns that are actually constructed do mediate deep , objective patterns in the socio-economic formation , and that the mediation takes place in struggle : the classes fight to articulate together constituents of the cultural repertoire in particular ways so that they are organized in terms of principles or sets of values determined by the position and interests of the class in the prevailing mode of production . |
| 7 | Both sets of inquiries pointed to the existence of a degenerate underclass of the population which formed a residual pool of infection . |
| 8 | From 1982 the two separate sets of targets used by the Labour government — volume and cash limit — were abolished . |
| 9 | Just how small the signals must be for the Z and h-parameter equations to apply with constant sets of parameters depends on the particular case . |
| 10 | Angela Cooper , prosecuting , said high spirits turned to aggression when the two sets of fans met on the train journey home . |
| 11 | It will be treated rather as a set of conditions relating to the sale of goods or the supply of work and materials for the purposes of the comparative analysis carried out in this chapter . |
| 12 | Sun also expects to make money on the box by taking business away from high-end personal computers , particularly PC CAD accounts with the LX , and attracting a new set of customers lured by the promise that Tsunami , a better value , will outlive its depreciation schedule . |
| 13 | Contracts should be able to be approved by the buyer 's conveyancer as soon as a satisfactory survey has been concluded , a satisfactory set of responses received from the seller 's conveyancer concerning the Protocol documentation , and a loan has been agreed where applicable . |
| 14 | Based on the idea that the service of God is incompatible with the service of Mammon and that true spirituality involves the renunciation of the material world , this view produces a dualism in which one set of principles applies at the level of personal relationships and an altogether different set to the affairs of the world . |
| 15 | In addition to these changes in the labour market , and the possibilities of substitution within it , the curriculum-employment nexus is complicated by a third set of factors related to the selection of graduates . |
| 16 | From the enhanced provision of electronic delivery by the Document Supply Centre to a huge programme for retrospectively converting music , map and manuscript catalogues which have been created over a period of more than one hundred and fifty years , to the question of how to extend the provisions of the Copyright Act 1911 to include legal deposit of digital publications , the Library faces a formidable set of tasks arising from the electronic revolution . |
| 17 | Partly inspired by a set of texts known as the Hermetic Corpus , the elite magicians of the Renaissance rejected what they saw as stultifying in Aristotelian science : a neglect of the particular for the general and an indifference toward practical application . |
| 18 | The whole set of commands encapsulated in the visual procedure was then executed sequentially . |
| 19 | Macros can also be used to carry out any set of commands used by the word-processing program . |
| 20 | The majority of builders therefore prepare a second set of accounts known as the cost accounts . |
| 21 | The nature of the relationships is defined by a set of keywords followed by the name of the related module . |
| 22 | The critique of functionalism led writers to stress the ‘ relative autonomy ’ of the capitalist state , manifested in its existence as a set of institutions separate from the classes of civil society . |
| 23 | A TEI conformant document must be describable by means of a dtd built up from the TEI tagsets according to a set of rules documented within the Guidelines , defining how tagsets may be combined and modified . |
| 24 | Normalisation is a set of rules applied to the relations which simplifies the model . |
| 25 | Examples include : the automatic generation of weather forecasts by a computer communicating with satellites , the selection of lists of random numbers for a competition or for the Premium Bond draw , programs which produce artistic designs or music automatically , being based upon a set of rules built into the program , a program designed to simulate some particular environment , such as climate , monetary systems , battle scenarios , etc . |
| 26 | The ethical positivist is likely to seek the development of three broad directions ; first , the drafting and annunciation through the UN of a comprehensive set of rules applying to the relationships between states , including where necessary cognisance of those aspects of internal affairs which are of international significance . |
| 27 | The courts have also developed a set of rules embodied in the doctrine of ultra vires ( see Section B ) which impose certain limitations on the substance of governmental actions and decisions . |
| 28 | Since 1966 it has operated a set of rules known as the ‘ stabilizer ’ which has regulated the behaviour of tour operators and travel agents in the inclusive tour industry . |
| 29 | A set of priorities went with the job and if you took on the job you took on the priorities . |
| 30 | The latest circular provides a new set of priorities raised by the most recent round of monitoring in January . |