Example sentences of "setting [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I would like to suggest , on this , on this one occasion only , and without any , setting precedents for the future either at this congress or future congresses , that we make an exception , and that in this particular deb debate we take additional speakers . |
| 2 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 3 | Class of Year Three children The " Keeper " is a guard who has been blinded to stop him ever setting eyes on the magic jewels . |
| 4 | She had been determined to avoid Vitor setting eyes on the child , but now — |
| 5 | I mean , if somebody was petrified of setting eyes on the youth again , then it would n't do them much good , for him to be sent to make good what damage he 's done to their house , or , |
| 6 | He had also tried setting traps around the shelves . |
| 7 | This was a formal process which focused on staff development by setting goals for the coming year . |
| 8 | But the Rector , the Rev William Mompesson , stood firm and declared a kind of quarantine , setting bounds round the parish beyond which no-one was supposed to pass . |
| 9 | For example , we would tax fuel according to emission rates and establish systems of tradable emission licenses for industry , setting ceilings on the permitted emissions , eg sulphur dioxide . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 11 | To achieve this they pursued tight monetary policies which in many cases involved setting targets for the growth in money supply . |
| 12 | As well as setting targets for the growth of money supply , it also gave targets for the PSBR as a percentage of GDP . |
| 13 | This involves setting targets for the growth of the money supply : the approach adopted in the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy of the early 1980s that we looked at in Chapter 17 . |
| 14 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 15 | If one follows through the possible implications of this , one comes to the thought that perhaps language should be presented , to learners primarily in lexical terms , setting conditions for the gradual emergence of syntax as a focusing device — the very converse of conventional practice . |
| 16 | Raising standards ; by guaranteeing that all pupils get a balanced curriculum which prepares them for adult life ; and by setting objectives over the full range of abilities — via ‘ attainment targets ’ backed up with appropriate assessment arrangements . |
| 17 | Setting objectives for the organisation . |
| 18 | The former contradiction , which Marx describes as ‘ the fundamental contradiction of developed capitalism ’ , is one between the social character of production , with its tendency towards unlimited development of the productive forces , and the private ownership of the means of production ( and therefore private appropriation of the product ) from which derives the aim of maintaining and increasing the value of capital itself , and hence setting limits to the expansion of production . |
| 19 | Using a ‘ time out ’ procedure for managing hitting , biting , and destructive behaviour is an effective way of setting limits for the child . |
| 20 | The overlap between Oakeshott and Hayek on the critique of rationalism , for example , sets the scene for setting limits on the ability of government sensibly to re-order society . |
| 21 | From the government 's point of view , the settlement complemented the ‘ Social Contract ’ between unions and state ; it accorded the unions considerably more leeway than the joint management-union training scheme proposed in 1972 by the Commission on Industrial Relations , with the stated purpose of ‘ improving industrial relations ’ through corporatism in the workplace , while setting limits on the scope and nature of the expansion . |
| 22 | But it also fulfils a wider social purpose in setting standards for the markets and in discouraging aberrant behaviour . |
| 23 | Setting standards for the amount and quality of work to be done by employees often does not provide an effective means of controlling their performance . |
| 24 | Data archives also have an important role to play in setting standards for the documenting of machine-readable data . |
| 25 | But there is one more role we have to play if we are to been seen as a socially responsible company , setting standards for the industry within the society in which we operate . |
| 26 | The next chapter will discuss financial techniques used in setting criteria for the selection of project proposals to maximize profitability . |
| 27 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |