Example sentences of "[coord] a set of " in BNC.

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1 But it can only carry one 1,000lb ( 455kg ) warhead , or a set of 166 bomblets which can be dropped in three batches .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Gold hardware , a quilted top or a set of the new and extremely succulent Gotoh 510 machineheads will all cost you extra .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The grammarian 's ‘ data ’ is inevitably the single sentence , or a set of single sentences illustrating a particular feature of the language being studied .
9 A typewriter was as individual as a fingerprint , or a set of teeth , or a gun barrel scoring a bullet .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 This option enables you to endorse a Software Status Report ( SSR ) for a single package or a set of packages .
14 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 …
15 For a start Grimes is peculiar in being derived from a poem , or a set of poems
16 People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books .
17 Both works , however , may be thought to share a secret , and a set of clues , which bear witness to the recrudescence of a hippy magic .
18 His amateur career started at the age of 12 with a father 's encouragement and a set of women 's irons .
19 His amateur career started at the age of 12 with a father 's encouragement and a set of women 's irons .
20 There were two stern clocks on the walls — neither of which agreed with the time according to Rock Hardy — and a set of coloured prints showing dreary desert scenes .
21 The versatile Starter Kit contains not only a 50ft Soakerhose , but also 10ft of garden hose , and a set of hose couplings , plus a flow control regulator and a 16-page instruction manual .
22 They contain a set of hypotheses about what particular features in the 2-D image might be , and a set of rules governing how those features can fit together to form solid objects .
23 The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff .
24 This curious animal has what was probably a gut and a set of tubules arising from it ; below this are curious pointed structures .
25 The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed .
26 There are officers with defined responsibilities , a committee and a set of rules .
27 We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses .
28 Specifically , present defence thinking may be based on a too-narrow paradigm of deterrence theory , and a set of assumptions about the world that are at best highly questionable , at worst lunatic .
29 It also has two sets of wheels , one set to guide it on rails and a set of rubber tyres for roads .
30 Since then it has done about 4000 miles and generated a lot of interest among fellow hacks — especially now we have the handling and ride back to its exalted best with new shocks and a set of tyres .
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