Example sentences of "set [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | However , there are still problems : cash limits will only be ‘ successful ’ if the government has the political will to set effective limits in the first place , and subsequently to keep to them . |
| 3 | Last year , a report for the European Commission argued that all EC countries should set corporate taxes within a Community-wide minimum and maximum . |
| 4 | I mean if you 'd set precise standards in the first place , you would n't have caused all that confusion . |
| 5 | even if local authorities become enabling authorities , a large authority can set common standards over a wide area . |
| 6 | Scotland 's management have already verified my belief that the playing standards here set new highs in the abbreviated game . |
| 7 | That 's not so worrying , but I feel that I 've been successful in my own right and I would erm like to think I deserve the same recognition as we 've both set same standards over the last twelve months . |
| 8 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 9 | Since the beginning of the 1990–91 session , Westminster Week has been replaced by two programmes ; the first , Out of Westminster , sets parliamentary issues in a regional context and involves local MPs from each region , and the second , called Scrutiny , deals with the work of parliamentary committees . |
| 10 | Researchers have also measured the response of the superconducting properties of a potassium-doped buckyball compound to changes in pressure — one of the fundamental measurements of any new superconductor , as it sets immediate constraints on the theoretical interpretations of the material 's behaviour . |
| 11 | Government sets financial targets for the nationalized industries . |
| 12 | Director of Studies : ‘ Setting high standards for the best will pull the others along . ’ |
| 13 | Director of Studies : ‘ Setting high standards for the best will pull the others along . ’ |
| 14 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
| 15 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has recommended a new scheme to the government for setting future targets for a cleaner water environment . |
| 16 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |