Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
4 | The music of Chopin , the poetry of Mickiewicz — both produced in exile — and the paintings of Jan Matejko are all powerful emotional and political responses to the reality of life in a country whose people were denied their own forms of government , and whose culture was relegated to nothing more than a set of quaint country ways . |
5 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
6 | The transformation of what was little more than a set of lawyers ' chambers to a fully fledged government department is a story worth telling , with portents still to come . |
7 | Thus , if cc was the only causal circumstance for an event e , then cc was no more than a set of conditions or events which necessitated e , and preceded e , and was dependently necessitated by e . |
8 | Great diversity was important ; a city after all was more than a set of carefully structured spatial patterns , it was a social system where environmental disorder might have a place in reflecting cultural diversity . |
9 | Is morality nothing more than a set of cultural conventions ? |
10 | It is often easier to assess a continuous probability distribution than a set of specific values . |
11 | It is often easier to assess a continuous probability distribution than a set of specific values . |
12 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |
13 | At some point in the dish , a blue spot will appear , and will grow into a ring : then a new blue spot will appear at the centre , and then another , until a set of expanding concentric rings appears . |
14 | For instance , if it is supposed that some of our perceptual judgements have a form of intrinsic credibility , and if a set of canons of rationality can be justified without recourse to the special sciences — they are analytic , self-evident , or a conventionally adopted linguistic framework — then it may be possible to trace the credibility of all rational beliefs to that possessed by this foundation . |
15 | If a set of presumptive penalties were to be constructed on the basis of Court of Appeal recommendations , for example , this would clearly have disastrous implications for sentencing levels elsewhere in the system , and particularly in the magistrates ' courts . |
16 | Since linguistic change and rapid dialect mixing appear to be a general characteristic of urban dialects ( Labov 1972b : 300 ) , it seems reasonable to assume that insight can be gained into the processes of their formation if a set of data from a city is compared with a set from a surrounding area . |
17 | MEDIAN — If a set of observations is arranged in increasing ( or decreasing ) order of their values , the middle value is the median . |
18 | The theory is that the range of decisions open to managers and administrative agencies is limited because a set of criteria derived from their expert background and training governs their decisions . |
19 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
20 | Since a set of standard terms is intended to be used by the drafter 's business client , the drafter should try to make it as clear and comprehensible as possible . |
21 | First , the drafter must bear in mind that , whilst a set of standard terms is not itself a contract , it is intended to supply the terms of a number of contracts ; it must therefore be capable of withstanding legal scrutiny . |
22 | Not all contexts allow such careful choice , however , and it has to be decided whether a set of radiocarbon results using less than ideal samples provides better dating evidence than the archaeology alone . |
23 | The first relates to whether a set of standard conditions should govern the contract in the first place , and the second ( in the case where the parties exchange their respective sets of standard conditions ) to the question of which set shall govern the contract between the parties ( the so-called " battle of the forms " ) . |
24 | And although he wrote no fewer than twelve String Quartets between the ages of fourteen and nineteen , as well as a set of Variations for String Quartet Op. 93 , these two are Rheinberger 's only two mature works for a medium in which he obviously felt very much at home . |
25 | What is as soothing as a set of worry beads , leaves your hands feeling warm and energised and could even help pinpoint an imbalance in your system ? |
26 | Such a process can not be described as a set of sub-activities connected by unidirectional communications . |
27 | The first essential of intensive fieldwork is that the fieldworker should be able to recognize everyone in his vicinity , not just as a set of individuals but as a set of individuals holding named titles to office who consider themselves to be related to one another in a particular way . |
28 | He spun around , dodged another blow from the puzzled guard , and sped back towards the circle , passing on the way the dryads who were pursuing him and leaving them as disorganised as a set of skittles . |
29 | This includes much which has gone under the name of " students ' songs " : acerbic goliardic and satiric verse , as well as a set of narrative-dramatic comoediae modelled in the twelfth century on the ancient Latin comedy plays . |
30 | Thus it is referred to , as is customarily the case , as a set of standard conditions of sale . |