Example sentences of "sets [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The development of national goals and targets for health , for example , covers social and environmental conditions and sets differential targets for specific social groups with very poor health status .
2 The school board sets broad goals for all schools to meet , along with their own goals and priorities .
3 Differentiation by task is a more complex and demanding strategy which does not take one simple form : In this example the teacher identifies the topic content which pupils should learn ( the core ) , then sets different tasks for different ability levels within the class and these tasks are directed to achieving particular levels of achievement .
4 Oil company-funded research on Jurassic and Palaeocene hydrocarbon reservoir sequences has shown that stratigraphic variation in heavy-mineral provenance is a firm mineralogical basis for correlating sandstones and sets important constraints on possible locations of source areas , sediment-transport pathways and evolution of depositional systems .
5 Whichever technique is used , there is clear evidence that stratigraphic variation in provenance provides a firm mineralogical basis for correlating sandstones and sets important constraints on possible locations of source areas , sediment transport pathways and evolution of depositional systems .
6 A similar double-narrative tactic is employed in Brigid Brophy 's In Transit ( 1969 ) , and something comparable is undertaken by Peter Ackroyd in Hawksmoor ( 1985 ) , which sets alternate chapters in contemporary and in early eighteenth-century London .
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