Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Productivity growth would then decline as the frontier set by the United States was approached . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the annual costing exercises there is usually a significant gap between the targets set by the Treasury and the genuine requirements of the Services , which no amount of discounting can bridge . |
| 3 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 4 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 5 | Adding new levies to fuel and power bills could be justified as environmentally friendly following the trend set in the US by President Clinton , and European Community plans to tax consumption that contributes towards global warming . |
| 6 | She crossed the room in a few quick strides , grasped the handle of the door set in the wall and pulled . |
| 7 | One of the preconditions set by the African National Congress ( ANC ) for negotiation was the lifting of the state of emergency in its entirety . |
| 8 | Given that the observer is aware of the tasks set by the teacher this too should be readily observable category . |
| 9 | St Wolfgang is the most famous of the resorts set on the shores of Lake Wolfgang . |
| 10 | Managers can then exercise as much authority and carry as much responsibility as possible within the constraints of the policies set by the organisation and the commitments they have made to their own superior executive . |
| 11 | But one of the conditions set by the Japanese government was that its people should take part only if there were a ceasefire between the warring parties . |
| 12 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 13 | Relevant costing features in many of the questions set in the Financial Decisions paper at Conversion Course , and it is often these questions that receive the poorest answers . |
| 14 | When the needle has centred , it indicates that you are on the centre line of the track set on the OBS scale . |
| 15 | Further more , it falls well short of the target set by the influential think-tank of former policymakers , the Group of 30 , for a three-day ( T+3 ) rolling settlement system . |
| 16 | In September , 10 school buses are to be powered by newly-developed compressed natural gas engines , which emit less than one-third of the limit set by the state authorities on polluting emissions from vehicles . |
| 17 | To this end the project places great emphasis upon the conduct of the survey work to the highest professional standards , upon achieving comparability with the previous studies in the series , and upon speedy deposit of the data set with the ESRC Data Archive at Essex . |
| 18 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 19 | Mercury in Liverpool Bay fish presents no real cause for concern to consumers , for the content is well below the limit set by the European Community [ EC ] . |
| 20 | With respect to die development ( and these comparisons are based on studies of a die set for the most complicated body panel ) , the time between the release of the first rough part drawings to completion of tryouts was 14 months in Japan versus 25 and 28 months in the US and Europe , respectively ( see Figure 3 ) . |
| 21 | Bernice , on the Doctor 's heels , saw the glowing blue curve of a planet set against the darkness of space . |
| 22 | She was surprised to see that he had the green flashing lights of a doctor set into the fairing at the front of the bike , and a siren that almost deafened her . |
| 23 | According to Malthus , its fiercest critic , it depressed the wages paid by farmers by compensating wherever they fell below a scale set by the bread price and the number of the labourer 's children in relation to his wage ( Marshall 1968 ) . |
| 24 | Against the timescales set by the government , that contracts for all services be in place by April 1991 , it proved a stern test of general management . |
| 25 | In the burning pages , he imagined his electro-acoustic instruments sparking and self-destructing like a spaceship set at the end of a low-budget science fiction film . |
| 26 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 27 | Today we approached from the most picturesque direction , through a stile set in the wall of the narrow stone bridge whose elegant arches span the burn 's deep-cut ravine . |
| 28 | Regardless of the aircraft 's heading , whenever its position coincides with the bearing set on the OBS , the left/right needle will be centred . |
| 29 | Across the room was the table with its powdery dried flowers and next to it the fireplace with the companion set in the hearth and the two tasteless china dogs on the mantel . |
| 30 | He had a red fox-fur hat with the ear-flaps set to the flying position , felt overboots with rubber soles , and no gloves . |