Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the exception of Whitburn New the standard of effluent set by the Forth River Purification Board is the Royal Commission Standard ie BOD 20 mg/l which is dependent on at least 8 times dilution in the receiving waters to achieve a river water quality adequate to support fish life . |
| 2 | Historically , the standard of diligence set by the courts has been comically low , as can be seen from the cases concerning failure to supervise fellow directors and managers who turn out to have been defrauding the company . |
| 3 | It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson . |
| 4 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 5 | Although it was hardly disputable that a West German contribution to NATO would be invaluable , especially as the other European members did not wish to , or could not , meet the new levels of requirement set by the United States , the American demand caused consternation and an agonising evaluation of its consequences in the capitals of Europe , and nowhere more so than in Paris . |
| 6 | Each NVQ [ SVQs in Scotland ] is a qualification about work , based on standards of competence set by the industry through its lead body . |
| 7 | From a purist point of view if the terms of debate set by the study of an inner city problematic are illegitimate then perhaps they should not be addressed at all . |
| 8 | In The Animal Estate , Harriet Ritvo notes that pigs ‘ had trouble meeting even the minimal standard of obedience set by sheep and cattle , let alone the high standards of co-operation set by the dog and the horse . |
| 9 | Its most famous son is Rossini who founded the town 's Institute of Music set alongside the renaissance palace , twisting narrow streets and fortress of the historic town centre . |
| 10 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 11 | When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof . |
| 12 | While the concrete is still wet , a more natural effect can be created by the addition of rockwork set into the concrete to create the faces of each small basin . |
| 13 | For simplicity , we are going to assume that the rate charged on bank lending is identical to the rate of interest set by the Bank 's bill market operations , though in practice the lending rate is determined by a mark-up on money market rates . |
| 14 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 15 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 16 | The trial was designed to have an 80% power , with significance set at the 5% level . |
| 17 | Built in the early 1960's , comprising a modern split-level maisonette with accommodation set on the first and second floors . |
| 18 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 19 | But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold . |
| 20 | President Franois Mitterrand will spell out the conditions for unification set by the European Community governments to President Gorbachev . |