Example sentences of "[noun] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whatever the motives , the Government 's twin aims of handing back the control of unions to the individual members , and ensuring that trade unions act within bounds set by a democratic state , are ones that should have been promoted by the left . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The weakest test of conformity with the no-arbitrage condition uses the bounds set by the transactions costs of arbitrage . |
| 5 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 6 | Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty . |
| 7 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 8 | Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin |
| 9 | These form a larger group than fabliaux set in the country , largely in villages , although the latter group is still a substantial one . |
| 10 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 11 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 12 | The attractions include the Roman walls , the castle , the cathedral , the racecourse , the zoo and the famous ‘ Rows ’ ( shops set in a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environment ) . |
| 13 | Cati 's heart twisted , then withered inside her , like a paper taper set to the fire . |
| 14 | They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls . |
| 15 | Wallmounted lights ( including lighting bricks set into the wall ) are a good choice for steps , while post-mounted lights , bollard-type lights or low-level lanterns are good for paths . |
| 16 | Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement . |
| 17 | However , the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars , while significant struggles and in the case of the latter conflict involving savage warfare in Manchuria anticipating the kind of warfare to be seen in Europe between 1914 and 1918 , did not constitute a confrontation between two superpowers set against a background of vitriolic suspicion and rivalry , as happened in 1950 . |
| 18 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Buddy movie set in the world of basketball , starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes . |
| 19 | 8 ( 5 ) WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Woody ( Cheers ) Harrelson and Wesley Snipes star in this buddy movie set in the world of basketball . |
| 20 | There 's a film on now , ‘ a gritty piece set in a Welsh mining community ’ according to the Radio Times . |
| 21 | Arne Glimcher , owner of the important Pace Gallery , has just made his directorial debut with ‘ The Mambo Kings ’ , an $18 million adaptation of the novel by the Cuban-American Oscar Hijuelos an extravaganza set in a 1950s New York of Latin supper clubs and parties . |
| 22 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 23 | Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis . |
| 24 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 25 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 26 | The view from the Beech 99 explained everything about the area and its needs — vast numbers of small lakes set in an almost tundra-like expanse of scrub and woodland . |
| 27 | Blanche 's lips set into a pout of annoyance . |
| 28 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 29 | Her hair was screwed into a ballerina chignon and her wooden lips set in a smile of excessive sweetness . |
| 30 | His lips set in a snarl . |