Example sentences of "[conj] a set of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is in contrast to the case of CLE-1 , where a set of bindings must be judged plausible ( typically involving reasoning ) even when no alternative exists . |
| 2 | When the period of feeding is over , and the animal is safe from predators , the contents of the rumen , the ‘ cud ’ , are released back into the mouth , where a set of specialised cheek teeth take over . |
| 3 | But it can only carry one 1,000lb ( 455kg ) warhead , or a set of 166 bomblets which can be dropped in three batches . |
| 4 | As Richard Flathman disapprovingly remarked , ‘ There has been a remarkable coalescence of opinion around the proposition that authority and authority relations involve some species of ‘ surrender of judgment ’ on the part of those who accept submit or subscribe to the authority of persons or a set of rules and offices . |
| 5 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |
| 6 | Those who would insist on an agreed blueprint of morality , or a set of moral values , to which all our aims and actions must be subject , would not accept that there are moral dilemmas . |
| 7 | Gold hardware , a quilted top or a set of the new and extremely succulent Gotoh 510 machineheads will all cost you extra . |
| 8 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 9 | From Hobbes , whose Leviathan he describes as ‘ the greatest … masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language ’ , he inherits the authoritarian aspects of his theory , the outlines of his distinction between state and society , and the rejection of the view that civil association must derive its authority from the inherent justice of some ‘ higher ’ law or a set of fundamental values . |
| 10 | The grammarian 's ‘ data ’ is inevitably the single sentence , or a set of single sentences illustrating a particular feature of the language being studied . |
| 11 | A typewriter was as individual as a fingerprint , or a set of teeth , or a gun barrel scoring a bullet . |
| 12 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 13 | Traditionally , those with 25 service have been presented with inscribed watches , but for the first time the 40 year award has been introduced with a choice of either a canteen of cutlery or a set of crystal glasses and decanter as a gift from the company . |
| 14 | This configuration may then be compiled and linked using a command file or a set of command files that have also been read out as part of the structure . |
| 15 | This option enables you to endorse a Software Status Report ( SSR ) for a single package or a set of packages . |
| 16 | To a landlord a dwelling may be a unit of accommodation or an item of investment : to a lawyer the dwelling may be a " house " or a " flat " or a set of " premises " , in other words only a legal concept ; but to the occupier the dwelling is his home … |
| 17 | For a start Grimes is peculiar in being derived from a poem , or a set of poems |
| 18 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 19 | Quantum analysis is a branch of statistics designed to test a very specific hypothesis , namely that a set of measurements is ‘ quantised ’ , and thus occurs in multiples of some basic measurement unit . |
| 20 | It is not obvious to the very young child that a set of objects has the same number of units however those units are arranged ( provided , of , that none are removed or added ) . |
| 21 | Dare I say that a set of vintage pickups and a lick of conductive paint would almost complete the sonic illusion , in the same way that burying the neck and body in peat for a few months would crown the guitar 's appearance ! |
| 22 | A theory tells us that a set of experimental conditions is a particular embodiment of a general process . |
| 23 | Further work on MRDs includes Guo 's [ 1989 ] attempts to build a machine tractable dictionary ( MTD ) from the LDOCE , based on the fact that a set of 1,200 words ( known as the Key Defining Vocabulary or KDV ) is found to define the 2,219 words of the core vocabulary of the LDOCE . |
| 24 | Notice that a set of four consecutive bytes could be treated as a word containing a 32-bit binary pattern upon which word instructions can operate , or as a byte string to be operated on by the byte string instructions , or ( possibly ) by the packed decimal instructions . |
| 25 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 26 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 27 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 28 | It may be noted that a set of equations Ax = p , where A is general , may be cast in the above form by premultiplication by AT : unc However , this does not appear to offer any computational advantage . |
| 29 | Whatever the particular context of such changes , these studies demonstrate that a set of transformations in material culture which may be found to permeate almost every trivial domain , from chimneys to rubbish disposal , can be understood as a largely unconscious and unintentional response by a variety of social groups , which produced new forms of demand and new means of incorporating the emergence of mass produced items . |
| 30 | This analysis of the dominant building styles of our society suggests that a set of representations derived from the interests and perspectives of a particular group in society not only denies access to this aspect of culture to alternative perspectives , but at the same time causes these representations to appear to be the image of those who have been excluded . |