Example sentences of "set [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are ‘ low ’ standards compared to those of many other housewives in the sample , and the routine is there , but it is not anchored nearly so securely to set times of the day as Barbara Lipscombe 's . |
| 2 | We are giving the regulators powers to set standards of service , covering such matters as fixed appointment times for service calls . |
| 3 | It may prove more feasible and profitable to set standards of language competence to be achieved at certain levels and leave room for different paths to these common goals . |
| 4 | The subsequent research findings presented to Congress resulted in the Noise Control Act of 1972 ( later expanded into the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 ) which required the EPA to set standards of tolerable noise levels for all types of new equipment and machinery . |
| 5 | They set traps of silk across the flyways between the branches and so continued to take toll of the insect population . |
| 6 | Aptly named Swing Shift , John Frieda takes looks of the past and transforms them into the sleek , set styles of today — with a little from modern technology of course ! |
| 7 | A breeze ruffled her hair and set hanks of wool waving on the fence-wire . |
| 8 | Clearly we can not set aims of ‘ changing attitudes ’ — these are not objective and neither are they stable . |
| 9 | ‘ Would it be easier to accept help , Fran , if I set terms of payment ? |
| 10 | Anderson 's restorations at Iona Abbey ( 1874–6 ) , Dunblane Cathedral ( 1889–93 ) , Paisley Abbey ( 1898–1907 ) , and Sweetheart Abbey ( 1911–14 ) set standards of scholarliness and restraint for generations to come . |
| 11 | We aim to take an active role in setting up projects which will set standards of excellence and make the arts more accessible by developing a wide ranging programme of arts activities for everyone in the South East . ’ |
| 12 | Athelstan stared at the closed , set faces of both knights . |
| 13 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 14 | On the various shelves were set items of laboratory equipment : retorts , beakers , distilling tubes and burners . |
| 15 | Annabelle is a beautiful bride , Steven is a handsome husband , and both come from secure family homes where their parents have set examples of what a good marriage should be . |
| 16 | McGeechan believes that Sole has set standards of performance with his pace and mobility in the loose which only a handful of British players , such as Brian Moore of England , are currently emulating . |
| 17 | No look , every employee needs to be set standards of achievement below which he must not fall . |
| 18 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 19 | Beatrix Potter 's little books provide a model of the economic use of precise language ; E. Nesbit sets standards of pace , intimacy with the reader , vivid immediacy , and dialogue ; Frances Hodgson Burnett shows how it is possible to hold and express beliefs ( such as the power of Nature ) and still remain in control ; Robert Louis Stevenson demonstrates the spirit-stirring power of adventure , a sort of basic human need to succeed and to survive gloriously ; Arthur Ransome illustrates how a matter-of-fact tone can match the no-nonsense approach of children ; and so on . |
| 20 | They need a person who sets standards of competence and integrity to be aimed at . |
| 21 | Setting goals of treatment |
| 22 | If the jump conditions are specified by bits in a subsidiary information field , then we may be able to specify further conditions by setting combinations of bits . |
| 23 | In the early 1960s , American Professor of Astronomy , Gerald Hawkins , analysed the positions of the stones at Stonehenge by computer and calculated the extreme rising and setting positions of sun and moon in 1500BC . |
| 24 | The foreshore at low tide was indeterminate territory , setting problems of similar complexity to those posed by property rights in the seashore below high water mark . |
| 25 | The work had changed in the post-war period , and women were less likely to be employed now at setting pages of books . |
| 26 | The turnover of individual government ministers responsible for setting objectives of state enterprises in their domain is even more rapid ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 75 ) . |
| 27 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |
| 28 | Further , such occupational communities ‘ tend to be relatively self-enclosed , and to be the reference group for those who belong , setting standards of behaviour and providing its own system of internal differentiation ’ . |
| 29 | The Hague Rules eliminated uncertainty of liability by setting standards of responsibility and establishing a mandatory minimum of compensation . |
| 30 | He ruled his staff with a light touch and a delightful sense of humour , thereby setting standards of unity and comradeship which were gratefully inherited by his successors . |