Example sentences of "set of " in BNC.

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1 Its essential feature is that there is an alternation of generations between a ‘ haploid ’ state ( having a single set of chromosomes ) and a ‘ diploid ’ state ( having two sets ) .
2 There are advantages in having one set of meetings starting just after school ends and the other set later on another evening so that shift workers have an opportunity to attend .
3 There were also some difficulties in the supply of raw materials and a new target had to be set of 35 machine sets .
4 To check that it was indeed the visual marking that preserved the webs , rather than any mechanical strengthening , Eisner and Nowicki had one set of webs in which they suspended the stabilimentum with black threads next to , but not touching , the web .
5 If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit .
6 One of the grooms had a whole set of separate bags labelled , ‘ Sunday evening ’ , ‘ Monday morning ’ and so on .
7 Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes .
8 ‘ Right now I have a whole set of ads I 'm just mad for , ’ Klein told a Sunday Times writer .
9 The state can be conveniently thought of as a rational , unitary decision-maker ( Allison , 1971 , p. 32 ) which has one set of specified goals , one set of perceived options , and a single estimate of the consequences which follow from each alternative available to it .
10 But the electric eel has another set of batteries that produce not steady low-voltage diction-finding transmissions but sudden massive shocks so strong that if you pick up such a fish without the insulation of rubber gloves and boots , it can throw you flat on your back .
11 ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed .
12 As may be seen in Fig. 3.1 the coordinates of the wire element are x' , y' , z' , whereas the coordinates of the point where we wish to determine the magnetic field are set of coordinates .
13 So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper .
14 Yeah there is is There 's an awful lot of suppose so about that you only gon na do one set of calculations rather than two are n't you ?
15 Unfortunately some users are taught that they need to create frames for everything and the problems that can arise from having one set of frames interact with another make you wonder how anybody ever manages to produce a correctly aligned publication .
16 Q16 Exponential smoothing and time series analysis generally have one set of applications in forecasting , whilst econometric modelling and scenario writing have another .
17 There are times when we need to appreciate that a requirement may be filled by two things in which one partner has one set of talents and the other partner another set .
18 Prepare a sheet for each of the sounds you have recorded , or for each suspect set of sounds if you do n't have much data to work with .
19 Selina has a bra-and-pants set of just that colour .
20 In Europe we have one major set of structures , from Precambrian to Recent , which relate first to plates splitting and colliding approximately along the Atlantic line and to the later sea-floor spreading that produced that ocean as we see it today .
21 Once set of findings from the YPLL project included evidence of a concern with personal loneliness and the absence of confidants among a substantial number of adolescents .
22 It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played .
23 Together , books and television form a useful alliance which has another set of special characteristics .
24 We had frequent opportunities for meeting the Homes , who had the next-door set of rooms .
25 Similarly , each module also has a pre-defined set of texts .
26 If property is fixed , then , as people move into an area that has a superior set of public services , they will drive up property prices in that area .
27 It moves to the description of the deposition at " os it were tyme of euynsonge " ( p.91 ) and entombment , ending quietly with the event recorded in Matthew 's Gospel ( 27:66 ) " was set of armede day " .
28 A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable .
29 Here is an extract from the minutes of January 10 : ‘ J Peeke brought to the attention of the committee that she only had one set of keys , not two like stated at the Christmas Party when a councillor asked where the Space Invaders keys were so they could have a few free games . ’
30 Well erm set of braces
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