Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement . |
| 2 | Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ? |
| 3 | But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With our feet firmly on the ground and our sights set in the right direction . |
| 9 | The European Association for the Conservation of Energy says member states will not now be able to meet the targets set at the UNCED Rio summit [ see ED 59/60 ] . |
| 10 | STING has a new single , album and dates set for the New Year . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | The commitment to a particular body of training : accountants , lawyers , doctors have to sit examinations set by the professional bodies . |
| 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 | The mills are also breaking pollution levels set by the local NRAs which WEN claims are inadequate in the first place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | the small characters set above the normal letters or figures . |
| 22 | the small characters set below the normal letters or figures . |
| 23 | Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants . |
| 24 | Today North West industry meets all the Mercury quality standard and load discharge limits set by the regulatory authorities and the UK fulfils all the requirements of the EC mercury directive . |
| 25 | Charming emerald islands set amongst the lapping waves . ’ |
| 26 | Legend has it that Rhodes , largest of the Dodecanese islands set in the blue Aegean Sea , was home to the sun god Helios … and little wonder given this island 's mild climate and long sun-drenched summer days . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | to comply with environmental standards set by the European Community and the Forth River Purification Board |
| 30 | 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 . |