Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved .
2 As will be discussed below , the treatment of detainees suspected of security offences is still open to serious questioning , but the operations of the penal system itself continue within the bounds set by the Statute of Rights .
3 We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law .
4 The weakest test of conformity with the no-arbitrage condition uses the bounds set by the transactions costs of arbitrage .
5 She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house .
6 Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty .
7 The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams .
8 These form a larger group than fabliaux set in the country , largely in villages , although the latter group is still a substantial one .
9 She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor .
10 They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls .
11 Wallmounted lights ( including lighting bricks set into the wall ) are a good choice for steps , while post-mounted lights , bollard-type lights or low-level lanterns are good for paths .
12 Your program should not , of curse , subsequently try to use variables set before the clear statement .
13 Whereas the standards and styles set by the peer group can set highly influential markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for young people it is in individual friendships that young people find support and security , negotiate their emotional independence , exchange information , put beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective of themselves .
14 The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves .
15 There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past .
16 TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties .
17 But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 .
18 Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ?
19 With a roar , it began to come their way , searching with its closed dead eyes set in the grotesque moving head .
20 But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees .
21 His face was thin and you saw those strange blue-coloured eyes set in the darkness of his skin .
22 The philosophy of the African Primary Science Programme derives from the experimental American curriculum projects such as the Physical Science Study Committee ( PSSC ) but the initial goals set at the MIT conference in 1961 indicate that considerable thought was given to needs and conditions in Africa .
23 At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning .
24 As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done .
25 On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home .
26 The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family .
27 It has thus politicised the problem of violence beyond the parameters set by the law and order debate .
28 A second reason is to show how recent British security developments are based on precedents set during the containment of the Irish conflict .
29 The use and refinement of existing powers The legal and operational precedents set by the strike were being followed and expanded by the police almost as soon as the dispute was over .
30 He surely recollects the precedents set in the steel and coal industries , in which the Community was involved in Europewide initiatives to limit the impact of the decline in demand for the products of the companies concerned .
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