Example sentences of "set [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such , care programming can be seen as an attempt to standardize mental health service delivery and to set norms for the administration of care for people with a certain level of dependency . |
| 2 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 3 | As a leading article in The Times put it : ‘ Undaunted by the superior timidity of the House of Lords the Court of Appeal persevered in its determination to set limits to the scope of the immunities granted to trade unions by statute . ’ |
| 4 | The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs . |
| 5 | The women are also warned by the men that if they , the women , should set eyes on the masks of the ceremony , the men would manhandle , rape , and disfigure them . |
| 6 | In an agricultural society poor soil conditions , often the consequence of centuries of abusive cultivation , together with the amount and nature of the rainfall , set bounds to the possibilities of progress . |
| 7 | We will set goals for the employment of women in professional and managerial posts in the NHS . |
| 8 | Set targets for the reduction of inequalities in health . |
| 9 | The marginal distributions of both explanatory and response variables set limits to the size of effect that is possible ; to put this formally , we say that d is a marginal dependent measure . |
| 10 | The authorities set limits to the expansion of bank deposits . |
| 11 | These set limits to the level of contributions with the aim to prevent candidates from becoming obligated to special interest groups . |
| 12 | Finally , the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty and Protocol of 1974 has limited the development of new ABMs , and the SALT Interim Agreement ( SALT I 1972 ) set limits to the growth of the strategic arsenals . |
| 13 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 14 | It is vital that you set limits for the amount of money that you will deposit with each bank . |
| 15 | In his model firms set prices at the end of period t - 1 to cover period t . |
| 16 | Clearly , though , the scale and the nature of the crisis have altered the context in which struggles occur , and have set constraints on the effectiveness of inherited patterns of organisation and action . |
| 17 | Irvin Ehrenpreis claims , for example , that the pastoral myth in ‘ The Deserted Village ’ sets villagers outside the world of observation , thereby making them seem unreal . |
| 18 | Moreover , Bukharin greatly underrates the real freedom involved in the freedom to ‘ choose one 's own master ’ , since it sets limits to the exploitation of the class as a whole . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | As well as setting targets for the growth of money supply , it also gave targets for the PSBR as a percentage of GDP . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Data archives also have an important role to play in setting standards for the documenting of machine-readable data . |
| 26 | The next chapter will discuss financial techniques used in setting criteria for the selection of project proposals to maximize profitability . |