Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 2 | UTOPIA has ideas for the improvement of twentieth-century life while NUMEROSO is suspicious of attempts to set the future into a mould , however good it may seem . |
| 3 | The two sides are among a group of clubs setting the pace in the Bord Gais National League with four points apiece . |
| 4 | A pair of spectacles and 40s. worth of books set the late ( graduate ) vicar of Whitchurch somewhat apart from his parishioners , who probably did not appreciate his erudition , yet his private collection was certain to be innocent of both profound and frivolous titles , limited to practical works such as collections of sermons , primers of divinity and apologetics , plus , naturally , his Breviary , perhaps too a copy of the Vulgate , or Latin scriptures . |
| 5 | You can work out the column width by multiplying the point size you want to use by two or the lowercase alphabet length by 1.5 to give the number of picas to set the text across . |
| 6 | We will issue factories and power stations with licences setting a ceiling on permitted emissions of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide . |
| 7 | We will issue factories and power stations with licences setting a ceiling on permitted emissions of pollutants . |
| 8 | For the first time , the students whose sights were set on a CNAA validated degree were sufficient in numbers to set the pace and the mood . |
| 9 | This should result in fundholders setting the pace and others benefiting . |
| 10 | Politicians ca n't force people to adopt Green lifestyles , and people remain dependent on politicians to set the legislative pace . |
| 11 | Rob Collister , president of Britain 's mountain guides , has made a plea for guides to set the example to the climbing community of the virtues of adventure climbing over convenience climbing . |
| 12 | Educating young people to drink responsibly and in moderation is best achieved by parents setting a good example . |
| 13 | Though his ethnography was judged inadequate by standards set a little later by Bronislaw Malinowski [ q.v. ] and he was slow to publish , he was the first British social anthropologist to undertake protracted fieldwork . |