Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved .
2 Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement .
3 Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ?
4 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 .
5 ICL HAILS VIKING — NEW SPARC MODELS SET FOR THE THIRD QUARTER , INTEL BOXES DUE IN JULY
6 Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles .
7 The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century .
8 A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year .
9 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
10 Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows .
11 With our feet firmly on the ground and our sights set in the right direction .
12 STING has a new single , album and dates set for the New Year .
13 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 .
14 This person is responsible for management leadership within a framework of policy objectives and resources set by the responsible minister , in consultation with the Treasury .
15 Do not change the OBS setting during the holding procedure .
16 Under the rules set by the Constitutional Court ( whose members are chosen by parliament ) , the president had to get half the electorate ( 53.5m people ) to approve an early parliamentary election .
17 Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement .
18 Whereas classes are large-scale social groups upon whom production relations confer unequal access to the results of that production , the bureaucratic group in Soviet-type societies is constrained to act according to the rules and objectives set by the corporate organization .
19 He was in one of a bank of four public booths set into the rear wall of Dunstable post office ; he was still north of London .
20 The term ‘ strategy ’ , as a way of conceptualising management actions , refers to long-term policies pursued by management and it implies , according to one common approach , that management has a choice between alternative possibilities with respect to the best ways of attaining its labour relations objectives — within the constraints set by the external environment .
21 The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS .
22 to comply with environmental standards set by the European Community and the Forth River Purification Board
23 Among its findings on freshwater quality the report mentioned : ( i ) high levels of phosphates in rivers , lakes and reservoirs in most of central and southern England , which cause excessive growth of surface plants such as algae which in turn damage wildlife ; ( ii ) acidification of rivers and lakes in some parts of Scotland , northern England and Wales to such levels that they are almost devoid of fish ; ( iii ) one in eight sewage plants still not operating within discharge limits ; ( iv ) periodic high levels of pesticide pollution in drinking water ; and ( v ) a high proportion of freshwater sites used for recreational purposes failing to meet the standards set by the European Community directive on bathing water .
24 Only 88 of the 416 beaches monitored in 1992 ( compared with 102 in 1991 ) failed to meet the standards set by the European Community directive on bathing waters .
25 The most important thing to check is that the instructors operate to standards set by the Royal Yachting Association , the governing body for the sport .
26 DEC Mips-Ultrix , HP HP-UX , IBM AIX and Silicon Graphics Irix versions are due in January , with Solaris 2. x and DEC AXP-OSF/1 implementations set for the second quarter .
27 Voix du Zaïre radio said that enraged students set on the junior education minister , Issalu Isangi , who was badly beaten up .
28 Before the main feature , however , there were a couple of important sideshows to set before the drenched assembly in the shape of the Plate and Bowl finals .
29 In its place are three buttons set into the right hand cab pillar .
30 The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family .
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